(Newswire.net — January 22, 2015) — Astronomers picked up an unknown radio signal, which may have come from colliding neutron stars in deep space. Well, that is one explanation. Another one is that someone or something broadcast the signal, which has been picked up on Earth. Its origins remain mysterious; however, the signal is being monitored live from the directions of the wormhole…
This is the first time that these radio waves have been spotted live. Sensitive equipment discovered that the fast radio bursts are quick, bright flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds, but still emit as much energy as the sun in an entire day.
Reportedly, mysterious waves were picked with the use of 12 telescopes in Australia, Chile, Germany, Hawaii, India, California and the Canary Islands.
Because they observed the radio waves in real time, astronomers were able to find patterns, however remained unable to find anything else.
“The fact that we did not see light in other wavelengths eliminates a number of astronomical phenomena that are associated with violent events such as gamma-ray bursts from exploding stars and supernovae, which were otherwise candidates for the burst,” Daniele Malesani, of the University of Copenhagen, told Astronomy Magazine.
The radio waves were polarized, which suggests that they were near an object with a large magnetic field, Malesani said.
“The theories are now that the radio wave burst might be linked to a very compact type of object – such as neutron stars or black holes – and the bursts could be connected to collisions or ‘star quakes,’ he added.
Astronomers determined that the origin of the signal is some 5.5 billion light-years away, from outside our Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers believed they caught the signal ten years after it has been made.
Reportedly, the interception occurred in May 2014, but the results of the study got published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“We found out what it wasn’t. The burst could have hurled out as much energy in a few milliseconds as the Sun does in an entire day. But the fact that we did not see light in other wavelengths eliminates a number of astronomical phenomena that are associated with violent events such as gamma-ray bursts from exploding stars and supernovae, which were otherwise candidates for the burst,” Malesani said.