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The impostor revealed: SN 2016jbu was a terminal explosion

The impostor revealed: SN 2016jbu was a terminal explosion

In this Letter, we present recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of the interacting transient SN 2016jbu at +5 yr. We find no evidence for any additional outburst from SN 2016jbu, and the optical source has now faded significantly below the progenitor magnitudes from early 2016. Similar to recent …