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OP - April 16, 2010, 09:43 AM

The astrophysicists are confused again.
This is cool, because it usually means they're about to find out something they didn't know before.

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.

The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.

It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.

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It is not quite in the middle of M82, where astronomers would expect to find the kind of supermassive central black hole that most other galaxies have. Which leaves the possibility that it could be a smaller-scale "microquasar".

A microquasar is formed after a very massive star explodes, leaving behind a black hole around 10 to 20 times the mass of the sun, which then starts feeding on gas from a surviving companion star. Microquasars do emit radio waves – but none seen in our galaxy is as bright as the new source in M82. Microquasars also produce plenty of X-rays, whereas no X-rays have been seen from the mystery object. "So that's not right either", Muxlow told New Scientist.

His best guess is still that the radio source is some kind of dense object accreting surrounding material, perhaps a large black hole or a black hole in an unusual environment.

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Reply #1 - April 16, 2010, 10:10 AM

I love "We don't know what it is"

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Reply #2 - April 16, 2010, 10:37 AM

Latest update on this is they have been able to record the radio waves and put it through the latest Transmogrification Modulator Mobile Receiver and this is what came out:

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Reply #3 - April 16, 2010, 11:04 AM

Ooooh! I'm on tinterhooks now!

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Reply #4 - April 16, 2010, 02:30 PM

How long before we find out this was predicted in the Qur'an?
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Reply #5 - April 16, 2010, 03:05 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on April 16, 2010, 09:43 AM
His best guess is still that the radio source is some kind of dense object accreting surrounding material, perhaps a large black hole or a black hole in an unusual environment.

BS. Its extra-terrestrials trying to get in contact. We should reply back and ask them if they would like a cup of tea.

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Reply #6 - April 16, 2010, 03:24 PM

Quote from: IsLame on April 16, 2010, 03:05 PM
BS. Its extra-terrestrials trying to get in contact. We should reply back and ask them if they would like a cup of tea.
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Reply #7 - April 16, 2010, 03:31 PM

Quote from: IsLame on April 16, 2010, 03:05 PM
BS. Its extra-terrestrials trying to get in contact. We should reply back and ask them if they would like a cup of tea.

@ 1 minute 42 secs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucchyWct4AQ&feature=related

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Reply #8 - April 16, 2010, 03:39 PM

was it predicted in the quran?

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Reply #9 - April 16, 2010, 05:03 PM

Quote from: DigDeep on April 16, 2010, 03:39 PM
was it predicted in the quran?

Of course it was - it's just a matter of ~~twisting~~ finding the right verse.

And when it turns out to be a hoax then we find the verse that predicted that too!
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Reply #10 - April 16, 2010, 06:56 PM

Quote from: billy on April 16, 2010, 03:31 PM
@ 1 minute 42 secs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucchyWct4AQ&feature=related

thank you Billy 4 the video. You made my day...

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Reply #11 - April 16, 2010, 07:47 PM

No problem RIBS

I remember watching it as a kid when it first was broadcast, and its still as funny today

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Reply #12 - April 16, 2010, 08:32 PM

wow this must be the work of god

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Reply #13 - April 16, 2010, 08:40 PM

In science there are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. - Donald Rumsfeld, da scientist.

So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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Reply #14 - April 16, 2010, 08:48 PM

I know that Rumsfeld is a twat.

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