Space Mysteries introduces a new phenomenon to the list… Astronomers have documented something called “alien radio circuits”… and there are a lot of mysteries going on.
ORCs were first discovered by astronomers in 2020, using the Australian SKA Pathfinder Telescope… operated by the Australian national science agency, CSIRO.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Authority believes that it will take a billion years for something like this to reach its maximum size and extend about 16 times larger than the Milky Way. It has already extended beyond several galaxies.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT telescope was able to get a better picture.
Researchers have some theories … Either it was the result of an explosion in the center of the galaxy, or jets releasing energetic particles, or as a result of a stellar explosion shock wave, resulting from the formation of new stars.
Ray NorrisThe professor at Western Sydney University and CSIRO says, “We know that ORCs are rings of faint radio emissions that surround a galaxy with a very active black hole at its center, but we don’t yet know what causes them, nor why they are so rare. “
So far, only 5 strange radio circuits have been observed, all by telescopes observing through radio wavelengths. Visible, infrared, and X-ray telescopes have not yet documented ORCs.