30-01-2022, 09:01 AM
"Australian astronomers have chanced across an object hidden in our galaxy that should not exist.
Three times an hour, like clockwork, the object releases a massive burst of radio waves for a minute, briefly becoming the brightest object in the sky at those invisible frequencies.
An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it is a magnetar. ICRAR
Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, said that behaviour was unlike anything that had been recorded."
https://www.smh.com.au/national/three-ti...20recorded.
Three times an hour, like clockwork, the object releases a massive burst of radio waves for a minute, briefly becoming the brightest object in the sky at those invisible frequencies.
An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it is a magnetar. ICRAR
Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, said that behaviour was unlike anything that had been recorded."
https://www.smh.com.au/national/three-ti...20recorded.