Astronomers Face Another Mystery

05
October 2018

Astronomers Face Another Mystery

The authoritative The Astrophysical Journal published the results of their latest research conducted by a group of University of Berkeley astrophysicists into radio signals from space. The California team reviewed the set of data obtained a year ago by the telescope Green Bank Telescope from a dwarf galaxy. The distance between the Earth and the dwarf galaxy is three billion light years. When decoding a huge amount of information (more than 400 terabytes) with the help of the newest neural technologies, 72 millisecond pulses were detected. Their source, designated FRB 121102, is considered unique, as it signals regularly. The nature of the object that emits FRB is still a mystery. Scientists offer a variety of explanations - from highly magnetized neutron stars to a technologically advanced civilization. And while there has not yet been any consistent sequence of blips, it is not excluded that they are the result of the activity of some intelligent substance.

Harvard University researchers are serious about a "fantastic version". The impulses discovered by their colleagues from Berkeley are the energy leakage of powerful transmitters created for intergalactic expeditions using a "solar sail". Light in fact, too, creates a weak, but sufficient pressure under certain conditions, so that the spacecraft can develop near-light speeds. The implementation of this idea will make it possible to translate the relationship of time and space to a completely different level. Studies are conducted within the framework of SETI, an international project to search for extraterrestrial civilizations.

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