Scientists have found a source of extraterrestrial radio signals – SoftSraze: actual and objectively

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Astronomers have discovered the nature of the mysterious radio signals, which are attributed to artificial origin.

The astronomers were able for the first time to determine the distance to the point where originate rapid mysterious radio burst, which is also called alien signals. it amounts to 6 billion light-years from Earth. This was reported in an article published in the journal Nature.

The group of astrophysicists from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) to determine the distance to the source of the mysterious radio flares. It was found that radiation occur in the galaxy, located in six billion light years away from our planet. On this basis, the scientists concluded that the signals have a cosmological nature, but not the nature of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The radio emission are investigated since 2007, since when they were accidentally discovered during observations of radio pulsars with using the Parkes telescope. Apart from that there were traces of a further nine similar bursts. Their frequency, not giving any explanation, suggests the idea of ​​an artificial nature of origin, that is, it was assumed that they could come from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Riddle managed to partly unravel in December last year. The polarization of one of the signals showed that it could be the source of a neutron star. The signal could occur as a result of unusual “starquakes”, or the formation of a black hole. To find out, it was necessary to determine the distance to the source of origin of the signal.

Calculate the distance Keane and his colleagues could based on FRB 150418 flash data, occurred on April 18 last year. By monitoring were connected several observatories in the end it turned out that lasted only a few seconds, the flash turned long Ranged afterglow, so and failed to identify the source.

Scientists have calculated that the outbreak occurred in a distant elliptical galaxy and overshadowed her all – brightness higher than the power of the sun glow in a billion times. According to Keane, the signal served as the progenitor of two neutron stars, fused together and turned into a black hole. In addition to light, radio waves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation, a cataclysm would produce strong gravitational waves, but to see them so far failed because of the large distance to the galaxy.

At the same time, as noted by RIA Novosti, the FRB 150418 has helped scientists reveal a cosmic mystery – “stretching” of radio waves of the outbreak helped astrophysicists solve the problem of the “missing matter” in the universe – that all the visible galaxies contain about half the size of the visible matter than they should contain

<. p> also, scientists had uncovered another mystery – the mystery of the missing matter in the universe, that is why all the visible galaxies contain about half the size of the visible matter than they should contain

Astrophysicists say that the waves investigated. outbreaks have been stretched in accordance with current cosmological theories, that is “lost” matter exists, but only to find out it is not yet possible. Scientists hope to new generations of optical and radio telescopes

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