Australian researchers have discovered an object in space that has never been seen before and emits enormous radio waves. They said that for the size of the object, it shouldn’t have had enough power to generate such large radio waves.
With the ever-developing science and technology, we find the opportunity to illuminate the darkness of space. Scientists continue to do new research in the depths of space every day. Among the planets and moons, sometimes different objects can be found in the sky.
A university student working on his undergraduate thesis discovered an unprecedented object. The object was later observed by Australian researchers.
There is nothing known to do this in the eye
After the student’s discovery, astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker observed that the object turned on and off every 18.18 minutes. The object was also emitting a massive burst of radio energy three times per hour. While there are other switching objects in the universe, such as pulsars, Hurley-Walker said the 18.18 frequency had never been observed before.
To understand what the object was, the research team looked at studies that took years to obtain. As a result of their studies, they realized that the object had an incredibly bright and extremely strong magnetic field, about 4,000 light-years away from Earth. Such an object shouldn’t have enough power to generate such large radio waves about every 20 minutes, the researchers say. In other words, the object has an impossible power.
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Researchers think the object may be an object they call an ‘ultra-long-period magnetar’ but never observed. The researchers also say the object may be a white dwarf, the remnant of a collapsed star. They also note that there is only one white dwarf pulsar they knew before, and not as large as this one.