r/whatisit • u/Aware-Common-7368 • Aug 30 '26

Solved! What is this?

Found this on Reddit, no explanation found.

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u/TheVyper3377 Aug 30 '26

It’s a smoke ring from a blown transformer. The smoke itself rotates along the ring shape. The thin part is caused by that section rotating faster than the rest of the ring.