Object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics

[FourWheelDrift]

"A bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit"

https://www.space.com/bizare-object-10-times-brigh...

[Simpo Two]

FourWheelDrift said:

"A bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit"

https://www.space.com/bizare-object-10-times-brigh...

Why is everything prefixed 'ultra' these days? Guess they're bored with 'mega'...

X-rays are on the electromagnetic spectrum and invisible to the naked eye - so where is 'luminous' and 'bright' coming from? Is this thing emitting visible light?

[Doofus]

"ULXs regularly break the Eddington Limit by 100 to 500 times."

Well it's not a limit then, is it?

[dudleybloke]

Bloody space rays need to read up more and stop being so silly.

[andy_s]

"Their current idea is that the intense magnetic field of the neutron star changes the shape of its atoms, allowing the star to stick together even as it gets brighter and brighter."

Neutron star atoms...eh?