Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
Spinning neutron star illustration .A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf -- collapsed cores of stars -- with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.
The object was discovered by Curtin University Honours student Tyrone O'Doherty using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope in outback Western Australia and a new technique he developed. Objects that turn on and off in the Universe aren't new to astronomers -- they call them 'transients'.ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist and co-author Dr Gemma Anderson said that"when studying transients, you're watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind."
Dr Hurley-Walker said the observations match a predicted astrophysical object called an 'ultra-long period magnetar'.
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