Australian researchers have detected a frightening flash of radiation from space.
A research team at Curtin University studied radio waves in the universe when they discovered one of the brightest radio sources in the sky, a new type of blinking radiation.
Details of their discovery were reported in the scientific journal Nature, The Guardian reports.
When something in space “turns on” and turns off, it is called a transient phenomenon. It could be from a pulsar that flashes in milliseconds or seconds, but it could be a supernova that reappears for a few days before disappearing again.
Astrophysicist Natasha Hurley Walker said the phenomenon now being observed “turns on and off every 20 minutes”. “It’s very scary for an astronomer because we don’t know anything in the sky that does that,” the researcher said. “And it’s close enough to us, about 4,000 light-years away. It’s our galaxy’s backyard.”
The phenomenon was spotted by Tyrone O’Dherty, a student at Curtin University, who then reported it to her teacher, Hurley Walker, of the university’s International Center for Radio Astronomy Research.
The behavior of this phenomenon is consistent with the so-called very long period magnets of a slowly rotating neutron star. The existence of this type of being has already been predicted, but never noticed.
However, there may be a collapsing star that has turned into a white dwarf star, but this is very unrealistic. “Whatever it is, he is too extreme. And of course
It could be something we never thought of.”
Hurley Walker said.
Experts studied the sky with the MWA (Murchison Wide Area Network) telescope in Western Australia.
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