Something Large Made a Giant Star Disappear for 200 Days

I am disappointed that this is a link to a YouTube video idly discussing a paper, when it could be a link to the paper.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05300.pdf

> The duration, depth and relative achromaticity of the dip mark this out as an exceptionally unusual event, whose secret has still not been fully revealed. We find two further candidates in the VVV survey and we suggest that these systems, and two previously known examples, may point to a broad class of long period eclipsing binaries wherein a giant star is occulted by a circumsecondary disc.

Spooky - I just read “The Slipway” from Greg Egan’s book of stories Instantiation which matches up nicely.

Maybe an overheated Starllink sattelite.