Amira Shehata wrote Thursday, December 21, 2023 10:00 PM
An alien telescope in California captured dozens of… Fast radio flux waves Shooting across deep space, these astronomical phenomena, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are characterized by short, intense pulses of radio waves from unknown sources.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the SETI Institute captured 35 strange signals, and noted a noticeable decrease in the central frequency of the explosions. The signals come from another galaxy about a billion light-years away from Earth.
Scientists don’t yet know what produces these fast radio waves, but they are generally thought to be emitted by dying stars in distant galaxies, also known as magnetars.
Magnetars have a strong magnetic field, which scientists believe shoots radio waves through space. Some explosions appear to be one-time events. Less than 5% of the hundreds observed have been seen to repeat, sometimes in a regular pattern.
However, scientists at the SETI Institute discovered one using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) telescope, which kept repeating 35 times over the course of two months.
Lead researcher Dr Sofia Shaikh said: “This work is exciting because it provides confirmation of known FRB properties and the discovery of some new ones.”
“We are narrowing down the source of fast radio bursts, for example, to extreme objects such as magnetars, but there is no existing model that can explain all the properties observed so far,” she added.
The study relies on the repeating FRB 20220912A, which the team found has no clear pattern of when it releases energy or the time between each. Such bursts usually last for a few milliseconds, and most of them disappear, but FRB 20220912A is known for its unique behavior that allows scientists to pinpoint its location. .
