Astronomers have discovered strange signals coming from a galaxy 3 billion light-years away. Radio stations, detected by telescopes around the world, are used to explore intergalactic space, but little is known about them.
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, it was observed that less than 5% of the hundreds that were observed repeat, sometimes in a regular pattern, and now a new frequent fast radio flow has been discovered in a metal-poor dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth These are smaller and more unusual than the first ever identified.
The researchers say the discovery may have implications for the way fast radio bursts are used to study the universe.
An international team led by Dr. Li Di, of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered the active repeating fast radio burst, known as FRB 190520B, and confirmed its association with a compressed fixed radio source, making it the second isotope to be identified after the discovery of the first repeater. FRB 1211102A.
But the researchers said the new FRF has never stopped since its discovery, so it’s the only one discovered so far that’s highly active.
They said that FRB190520B appears to reside in a complex plasma environment with properties similar to those of an extremely bright supernova, suggesting that it may be reborn.
The behavior of the new FRB 121102A is similar to but more extreme, the experts said, adding that the discovery hints at an evolutionary picture of FRBs.