Posted on 02/11/2020 9:17:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Astronomers have never before seen fast radio bursts being emitted in such a regular pattern, and still don't know their origin.
Astronomers have detected alien signals - that is, signals from a foreign galaxy - being emitted in an unusually regular 16-day cycle.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are not in and of themselves unusual - the first was detected in 2007 - but previous observations have shown them to be mostly emitted at random.
While there have been some bursts which repeated, as astronomers discovered previously, they have never been seen repeating in such a steady cycle.
The origin of FRBs hasn't been established yet, although the dominant theories regarding them suggest the signals are produced by rapidly rotating bodies such as neutron stars or black holes.
Researchers studying data from the radio telescope used by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) found the FRB signals arrived on Earth up to twice an hour for four days before suddenly stopping, only to start up again twelve days later.
Its origin was located within a medium-sized spiral galaxy about 500 million light-years away, making it the closest FRB discovered to date.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
..... and a long time ago...................
“It always pays to read the article before posting the obvious.”
Second time I’ve done this today. Didn’t sleep well last night, so I’ll blame that..
Or!....
Is it outer-space aliens from outer-space flying around their home solar system in outer-space cars and “thumping” to show off how powerful their radio transmitters are.
You know, like idiots here on earth do in their cars with their stereos.
Weird radio signals may have even freakier source than aliensWow. The entire energy output of the sun for an entire day sent out in a millisecond flash!Whatever it is, it's a good thing we're about 3 billion light-years away from it. In a flash lasting less than a millisecond, the source of the bursts radiates the same amount of energy as the total output of our sun for a whole day. "If we had one of these on the other side of our own galaxy -- the Milky Way -- it would disrupt radio here on Earth, and we'd notice, as it would saturate the signal levels on our smartphones," said Shami Chatterjee, senior research associate in astronomy at Cornell University.
In 2017, Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US, proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters. He said that rather than being designed for communication, they would more likely be used to propel giant space ships powered by light sails, which would bounce the beams off a huge reflective sheet to provide forward thrust.
In 2018, Professor Loeb proposed the idea that the weird object "Oumuamua" could be a light sail from a far-off civilization because it was exhibiting strange, unexplained accelerations. Wild Idea: What If Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua' Is an Alien Light Sail?
Yep, if aliens did in fact send this signal, then they’re likely long dead as a species already. I hate getting delayed emails.
The pulses may have been going on for eons, but were only first detected on September 16, 2018.
pulsars emit regularly - once every revolution
or a very slowly rotating pulsar?
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Alas there are no aliens.
They’ve been able to partially decipher the signals.....something about renewing the extended warranty on our cars.
We probably need to watch this one again: Contact
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
That, or they're Michael Bloomberg ads ...
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#53 you are babyloning..... : )
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