Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes

Astronomers have discovered a strange and amazing thing: a mysterious object that keeps the pulses of every 44 minutes.

In a press release issued by the University of Courtine in Australia, which was part of the international team that discovered the object, only 15,000 light years in the Milky Way galaxies, astronomers explained that the discovery was more amazing because the sign comes in the form of both X -rays and radio waves.

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, was discovered after the Askap Radio telescope in Australia, which was used to discover, and is emitting from a two-minute pulses that stop and then repeat it after 44 minutes. As the press statement clarifies Curtin, the researchers had luck when they realized that the Chandra X -ray Observatory in NASA was watching the same part of the sky and discovered the same signal repetition in the form of X -rays.

This double pulse belongs to a group of newly discovered space phenomena known as “long radio transient” or LPTS for a short period.

Discover in 2022 by the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research – which also sponsored this last study – these mysterious impulses have unknown origins and occur in fixed periods of minutes or hours. Astrologists consider them significantly slow compared to the signs emitted by the pulsating stars, those stars that speed up quickly send similar fireworks every few milliseconds when their columns indicate the direction of the Earth.

In the years after its discovery for the first time, astronomers around the world discovered only about 10 LPTs-but before now, none of them have been operated through X-ray telescopes as well.

According to Ziteng “and” Wang, the ICRAR CURTIN scientist and the main author of the lead is a paper about the result that was just published in the magazine natureDiscover the double nature of LPTS in a simultaneous way, “I felt as if to find a needle in a straw pile.”

“The ASKAP radio telescope has a wide show in the night sky, while Candra notes a small part of it,” Wang explained in the press statement Curtin. “Therefore, it was fortunate that Chandra noticed the same area of ​​the night sky at the same time.”

Since LPTS is a new phenomenon for astronomers, they can definitely say what causes them.

When the first of them was discovered, astronomers assumed that they could come from the magnet, a type of neutron stars with very powerful magnetic fields that also emit radio pulses at faster periods, leading to the ICRAR team that is supposed to have a “high -long magnetic” at their hands.

Although Magnetar has been canceled, astronomers behind this update in LPT are hoping to help them know what this strange, strange impulses are around.

Wang said: “This organism is different from anything we have seen before.”

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