Astronomers Detect , Strange Radio Signals From , Unique Stellar Object.<br />'Newsweek' reports that astronomers have <br />detected a strange spinning object emitting <br />radio wave pulses somewhere in deep space.<br />Every 22 minutes, the object, ejects powerful jets of, radio waves. .<br />While signals from GPM-J1839-10 have <br />been hitting Earth for almost 30 years, <br />scientists have only noticed them now.<br />The object, located approximately <br />15,000 light-years from Earth, is believed <br />to be a uniquely slow-spinning magnetar.<br />A magnetar is a neutron star with a powerful <br />magnetic field, typically "with a mass about<br /> 1.4 that of our sun," 'Newsweek' reports. .<br />Magnetars are formed by the collapse <br />of massive stars approximately <br />10-25 times the mass of our sun.<br />Magnetars are highly magnetic, young <br />neutron stars, usually rotating once <br />every one or two seconds, and they <br />produce bright X-ray emission, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Astrophysicist at Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), via 'Newsweek'.<br />A handful (six out of the 30 known) <br />occasionally produce radio emission <br />for a few weeks to months at a time, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Astrophysicist at Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), via 'Newsweek'.<br />Our existing theories can't explain <br />how a neutron star could produce <br />this radio emission while spinning so <br />slowly, let alone keep it up for decades, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Astrophysicist at Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), via 'Newsweek'.<br />'Newsweek' reports that the team began hunting for <br />signals similar to another object, GLEAM-XJ162759, <br />which mysteriously went quiet in 2018.
