Astronomers have said that mysterious, intense blasts of radio energy are detected from within our own galaxy.
Fast Radio Outbursts of FRBs last only for a fraction of second but can be more than million times more powerful than the Sun. as there are so short and strong, their origins remain largely unknown.
No for the very first time, astronomers have observed a FRB closer than any others received before. They also were able to determine that these signals were coming from within our galaxy.
The detection of this particular FRB began on 27th of April, when researchers picked up multiple X-ray and gamma ray emissions coming from the other end of the galaxy. Next day, they used two North American telescopes to observe that patch of sky, and picked up the blast that came to be known as FRB 200428.
The detection of the FRBs is not a new phenomenon to the astronomers. But what distinguish this signal from the others is that all the other were outside our galaxy, with some located billions of light-years away.
“There’s this great mystery as to what would produce these great outbursts of energy, which until now we’ve seen coming from halfway across the universe,” said Kiyoshi Masui, assistant professor of physics at MIT, who led the team’s analysis of the FRB’s brightness. “This is the first time we’ve been able to tie one of these exotic fast radio bursts to a single astrophysical object.”
Astronomers are able to locate this burst 30,000 light years away from a magnetstar. This made us a solid point that there is a connection between magnetstar and these radio signals.
Now astronomers are all set to study this magnetstar and also the other 30 known magnetstars will be in focus.
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