A team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States has claimed to have uncovered the mystery of signals coming from space. In 2022, a powerful burst signal was detected through a radio telescope from a galaxy about 200 million light-years away from Earth. Although the explosion lasted only a few milliseconds, the signal contained enough energy to spread throughout the entire galaxy.
Scientists from MIT have claimed to have uncovered several new mysteries behind the powerful burst signals coming from the galaxy. According to them, these signals are known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The signals originated from a small region near a rotating neutron star. It is believed that the signal was generated from a layer around the star called the magnetosphere, which is a powerful magnetic field surrounding the star.
Scientist Kiyoshi Masui, speaking about the mysterious signals from space, said, “The area around a high magnetic neutron star is known as a magnetar. At this location, atoms cannot exist as they are separated by the magnetic field. What we observe is that the energy stored in the magnetic field near the source spreads in such a way that radio waves travel halfway across the universe.”
When a star with a mass 7 to 19 times that of our Sun explodes in a supernova, it typically forms a neutron star. Scientists have also detected a powerful explosion occurring 8 billion light-years away from Earth’s own galaxy.
Source: Daily Mail
