An unusual radio signal has been detected pulsing in the sky about 1,300 light-years from Earth.
According to a report in The Conversationa team of scientists has detected a strange flash, or “pulse,” in the Milky Way.
Lecturer at University of Sydney Manisha Kaleb He explained in his report: “My colleagues and I ( me trot team) made the discovery while observing the Vela-X 1 region of the Milky Way about 1,300 light-years from Earth, using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
“We detected a strange flash or ‘pulse’ which lasted about 300 milliseconds.
“It was unlike anything we’ve seen before,” he added.
The scientists found that the pulsations are similar to those of the emission from a neutron star.
The team searched ancient data from that region of space and found that similar signals had been emitted before but their previous searches went unanswered.
The odd pulse is said to repeat every 76 seconds.
Neutron star pulse cycles are usually a few seconds or less, so scientists are beginning to suspect that is not the case.
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“Which means we may have discovered an entirely new class of radio-transmitting objects,” Caleb wrote.
The research team explains their mysterious find in New study Published in Natural Astronomy.
It concludes: “Our findings prove the existence of very long-period neutron stars, suggesting possible links to the evolution of highly magnetic neutron stars, very long-period magnets, and fast radio bursts.”
The location of the foreign body emitting the impulse is precise.
Scientists now call it PSR J0941-4046.
They think it’s a new type of radio-emitting galactic neutron star.
What makes it even weirder is that it is located in the “graveyard” of a neutron star.
This is the region of space where stars are thought to be dormant.
The researchers believe that future searches for similar stellar objects will be crucial to advancing our understanding of space.
This story originally appeared sun It is reproduced here with permission.
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