LFBOTs (Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients) are already quite bizarre. They erupt with blue light, radio, X-ray, and optical emissions, making them some of the brightest explosions ever seen in space, as luminous as supernovae. It is no exaggeration that they give off more energy than hundreds of billions of stars like our own. They also tend to live fast, blazing for only minutes before they burn themselves out and fade into darkness.
The 'Tasmanian Devil' not only evolved faster than a supernova, but 14 individual flares were observed, lighting up over a stretch of several months, or about a hundred days. Even toward the end of the event, one flare was almost as bright as the original outburst of the transient. Scientists who investigated AT2022tsd still aren't completely sure if they have accounted for every single flare.
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