9.28.2007
WOW Signal Part Deux?
Researching data from a 2001 survey, astronomers on Thursday caught a massive burst of radio waves coming from approximately three billion light years away. Only lasting a fraction of a second, the signal came from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Even though they were surveying the nearby galaxy, the signal came from a much more distant source. The weird thing is that the signal did not repeat as a pulsar would.
Cool stuff, definitely unprecedented. The latest theory is that the signal was the last gasp of a dying black hole.
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