Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources is my new band name

“A mysterious object has been spotted that’s 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists can’t work out why it hasn’t exploded. Ultraluminous X-ray sources are objects that shine 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists have said they are too bright to exist, as they break the Eddington limit. A new study confirmed the brightness of a ULX — leaving the mystery of how it exists unsolved.”

Hermetic Library Omnium Limit Breaking Ultra Luminous X Ray Sources Is My New Band Name 11may2023

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“NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources. These objects are more than 100 times brighter than they should be. Observations by the agency’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope support a possible solution to this puzzle.”

“Orbital Decay in M82 X-2“—”M82 X-2 is the first pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source discovered. The luminosity of these extreme pulsars, if isotropic, implies an extreme mass transfer rate. An alternative is to assume a much lower mass transfer rate, but with an apparent luminosity boosted by geometrical beaming. Only an independent measurement of the mass transfer rate can help discriminate between these two scenarios. In this paper, we follow the orbit of the neutron star for 7 yr, measure the decay of the orbit […] and argue that this orbital decay is driven by extreme mass transfer of more than 150 times the mass transfer limit set by the Eddington luminosity. If this is true, the mass available to the accretor is more than enough to justify its luminosity, with no need for beaming. This also strongly favors models where the accretor is a highly magnetized neutron star.”

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  1. “she passes along the Nile ‘by Moeris and the Mareotid lakes,’ and sees all human life shadowed upon its waters in shadows that ‘never are erased but tremble ever’; and in many a dark and subterranean street under the Nile–new caverns–and along the bank of the Nile; and as she bends over the unhappy, she compares unhappiness to ‘the strife that stirs the liquid surface of man’s life’; and because she can see the reality of things she is described as journeying ‘in the calm depths’ of ‘the wide lake’ we journey over unpiloted.”
  2. Omnium Gatherum: 11jul2021
  3. “it possessed such a sublime mixture of arcane dogma and abject rudeness that listeners were never sure whether to be bored or offended”
  4. Evidence of a Pharaonic temple in Sudan a thousand years older than the city on the site was thought to be
  5. “She had found a nasty, forbidden little book in the great Ninth repositories of nasty, forbidden little books, and all the Houses would have had a collective aneurysm if they knew she’d even read it.”