The largest telescopes in the world have scrambled to point toward this faint, fading object. Because it may well be the first active optical counterpart ever found for a gamma-ray burst , and could hold the clue to the distance scale to this most enigmatic class of astronomical objects . During the past two months, multiwavelength observations, claims , and counterclaims have been exchanged at a torrential pace, as astronomers wait impatiently to see what setting houses the fading transient . The OT arrows show the source that faded from view during this time. The OT has been examined by large telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope and Keck , yet researchers are still scrambling to get answers to fundamental questions about its true nature.
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