Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

[Ziggy]

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.

Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light

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[Dr. Greenthumb]

Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light

Wish they would of said what it's moving towards. Should we start packing our bags yet?