Astronomers have spent the past few years staring into space, trying to unravel the mystery of LFBOT’s, the deeply uninteresting acronym that tightens up the unwieldy and somehow even more uninteresting longer name: luminous fast blue optical transients. In English, that’s events that show up as blinding blue flashes that last only a few days, […] The post What’s Causing Those Blinding Blue Flashes in Space? Scientists May Have an Answer. appeared first on VICE .