Cosmic Detective Work: Tracing the Phantom Flash

Cosmic Detective Work: Tracing the Phantom Flash: An international team led by Indian astronomers has decoded EP241107a, a fleeting cosmic flash called a Fast X-ray Transient (FXT) detected on November 7, 2024. Using a global multi-wavelength network—including India’s Hanle telescopes and Pune’s uGMRT—researchers tracked the rapidly fading explosion across optical and radio spectrums. Triggered by a massive star's collapse or a neutron