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Not so long ago, a group of astronomers led by a researcher Emily Petroff of Australian University of Technology Swinburne (Melbourne, Australia) had the opportunity to study quite strange radio signal from space of unknown origin.
In an article in the scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society scientists describe this event as sudden and short-term flash of radio waves not accompanied by light and other types of waves. In other words, scientists want to say that this radio signal was not caused by any of the known phenomena.
Describing the details of their research, scientists from the Technological at Swinburne University explain that they are weird radio flash were able to catch thanks to the telescope Parks, located in the state New South Wales, an observatory in an Australian city with the same name. Thanks to the data obtained by the telescope, they found that this radio signal originates in about 5.5 billions of light years from our planet and lasted only a few milliseconds.
However, the most interesting thing here is that, despite its short duration, radio signal, according to preliminary estimates, possessed energy equal to the energy of the sun generated by our luminary for the whole day. In addition, scientists have found that the behavior of the radio signal indicates its interaction with strong magnetic field located next to the signal source. And besides, as mentioned earlier, this radio signal is not accompanied by light and other types of waves.
Scientists report that the release of heavy duty and at the same time a short radio signal occurred in the space region, which is home to two black holes, however researchers are sure that the black holes themselves are not its source.
And although the lack of information about this area of space is not allows scientists to more accurately suggest a possible source of this ejection, the researchers note that the absence of light waves in received signal allows you to discard at least one of possible options.
“We found out that light has nothing to do with it. radio signal. However, this outburst, which lasted only a few milliseconds, had tremendous energy equivalent to that The sun produces in a whole day, “the astrophysicist comments. Daniele Malezani.
“The fact that there are no traces of light and other types of waves in the signal allows us to drop a number of astronomical phenomena that associated with phenomena such as gamma ray emissions from the death of stars and supernova formations, and which otherwise could be its source, “the scientist adds.
Emily Petroff and her colleagues also note that this strange a powerful radio signal is not the first among the fixed telescopes and studied by researchers.
The first of these superpowered radio emissions was noted by scientists in 2007 year. After some time, the Australian telescope Parks recorded six more similar emissions. Then another the signal was caught by the Arecibo Observatory.
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