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Posted on 10/14/2025 11:07:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
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An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity.
The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd radio circle, one of the scarcest and most mysterious objects in the universe, said Dr. Ananda Hota, lead author of a study published on October 2 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Odd radio circles, also known as ORCs, likely consist of magnetized plasma — charged gas that is strongly influenced by magnetic fields — and are so massive that entire galaxies reside at their centers. Spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years, they often reach 10 to 20 times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. But they are also incredibly faint, and usually detectable only through radio light.
The newly discovered odd radio circle, dubbed RAD J131346.9+500320, is the most distant one known to date, located 7.5 billion light-years from Earth — and the first discovered by citizen scientists. It’s also only the second odd radio circle that has two rings.
“ORCs are among the most bizarre and beautiful cosmic structures we’ve ever seen — and they may hold vital clues about how galaxies and black holes co-evolve, hand-in-hand,” wrote Hota, an assistant professor at the University of Mumbai’s department of atomic energy’s Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, in an email.
A giant leap for citizen science
Odd radio circles were first discovered about six years ago, but the structures remain largely elusive.
Hota is the director and principal investigator of the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory, an online community open to anyone with a background in science. Astronomers train users to recognize patterns in faint, fuzzy patches of radio waves and analyze astronomical images, Hota explained.
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One ring to .................Oh, wait a sec..............
Two for the price of one?
First discovered by citizen scientists.
Want to hire me now.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
The Orc was a kind of demon creature in Old English tales; that’s probably where Tolkien got it. Maybe the radio astronomers made the name for the ‘circles’ to match up with Orc...it does seem kind of contrived.
Tolkien got the name “orc” from Beowulf, as he was translating it to English. “Orcneas” in old Norse meant “evil spirit”.
What an awesome God our Creator is!
I used to be an ORC before my knees hurt so bad. I transferred to the gargoyle department.
No one stole your sweet roll?
Double ringed radio circle.
Happened a lot when station owners switched to buying AM and FM.
No static at all.
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