Published 13:01 IST, February 10th 2020

Scientists discover mysterious repetitive radio signals from deep space

A number of scientists have discovered what is said to be the first-ever reliable pattern of radio bursts from deep space which is located 500M lightyears away.

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A number of scientists have recently discovered what is said to be first-ever reliable pattern of radio bursts from deep which is located approximately 500 million lightyears away from earth. According to reports, a mystery object has led to phemen which is casing transmitted signals to be sent every 16 days. However, scientists have ruled out potential for alien contact. 

While speaking to an international media outlet, Leon Osdtrum at Nerlands Institute for Radio Astromy said that if it were an alien beacon it would have emitted more quickly as a 16-day period is t efficient for communication. However, discovery still marks a significant moment for astrophysicists who ticed pattern in data from Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment radio telescope in British Columbia. It was furr ted that first case of its kind, a blast of fast radio bursts (FRBs) were reportedly emitted around one to two times per hour for four days before going silent for 12 days. 

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According to reports, over 100 FRBs have been ted since 2007, however, only ten have been seen to repeat this cycle. report furr suggests that signals have been tracked to a spiral galaxy nearly 500 million lightyears away from Earth and Duncan Lorimer, an astrophysicist reportedly said that this discovery is potentially going to take scientists in an interesting direction to get to bottom of se repeaters. 

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Signal from a galaxy similar to ours

In month of January, astromers also found a mysterious signal originating from a nearby galaxy that looked very similar to our own galaxy. se findings could help solve mystery of unexplained fast radio bursts that have been sent through universe. radio bursts could have resulted from unkwn natural phemena or even alien life.  

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galaxy in question that is sending out se signals seems to be very similar to our own. According to Sarah Burke-Spolaor, assistant professor of physics and astromy and co-author on a new paper in Nature said that identifying host galaxy is very important for understanding fast-radio bursts. Only after identifying origin of fast radio bursts can scientists try to find out what type of environment are producing fast-radio bursts. 

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13:01 IST, February 10th 2020