A slowly rotating, ultrabright object 15,000 light-years from Earth defies every logical explanation that astronomers have thrown at it.
Astronomers have discovered a new class of stellar object that seems to be defying death in inexplicable ways.
These tiny, twirling balls can emit ultrabright jets of electromagnetic radiation as they spin, including radio waves that pulse to steady, mysterious rhythms that typically repeat every few seconds or minutes. These radio pulses usually stop entirely after a few months or years, as the magnetar's rotation slows to a point dubbed the"death line" — a theoretical threshold beyond which the star's magnetic field becomes too weak to generate any more high-energy radiation.
If confirmed, this ultralong-period magnetar could represent a new class of stellar object that defies all current theoretical models.
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