Something Strange in the Neighborhood


An unknown object in the galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves.  The emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.   It does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from a supernova, according to the Coast to Coast radio show.  Those usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, the spectrum of the waves changing all the while, which this one doesn’t do.  So this is something completely unknown and as yet a mystery.

“The co-discoverer of these radio waves  Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/ in the UK exclaims ”We don’t know what it is,”   The interesting aspect of this story is the radio waves seem to be a very dense object that does not fit the typical criteria for a black hole , or a micro-quasar . The radio waves were somewhat found accidentally  using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. The possibilities are endless it may turn out to be a galactic echo or it may turn out to be a massive thriving civilization that finally found us and sent a virtual space text message we found unintentionally.”

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