What Caused The Betelgeuse Dimming Anomaly? Updates

Betelgeuse has been a center of attraction and research for the scientific community in recent years. The red supergiant Betelgeuse, 642 light-years distant, inexplicably started to dim around the end of 2019, losing up to 60% of its regular brightness.

Something really remarkable for a star that is among the ten brightest visible from Earth, and had led scientists to assume that its supernova explosion is near. The initial explanations and theories talked about some kind of large emission from the star that produced lots of dust and blocked the light coming from it, causing the strange dimming effect.

We also made a video about the most recent explanation observed from the data obtained from Hubble, so make sure to check that out too. Even if this is precisely what happened here, we still don’t know why this happened or why the star had such an extraordinary emission.

The real impact was fairly dramatic; the star on the right is what it looked like at its darkest, making this one of the most intriguing mysteries of the previous several decades.

Could it be a passing black hole that might have caused the emission from the star? or a swallowed planet? Let’s talk about all that and more.