This bright point may be a completely new type of space object

Initially, the point looked like any other star. Then astronomical physicists turned into the polarized light and found themselves looking at a completely unexpected scene.

“Everything else disappeared, until the bright central black hole, and only this small point remains,” Elena ShabnskaGizmodo said the Max Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy in Germany. The Shalovinska team believes that they have discovered a completely new type of space, which they called “Bontem”.

Like its name, Latin for “Point” or “Dot”, the pandob is a compact and bright spot of light in space – but it is only visible with wavelengths of millimeter and establish an unusually organized magnetic field. A paper has been accepted for pantam Arxiv.

The team wanted to make it clear that the panelm is simply an extraordinary example of a known phenomenon, such as magnetism or Supernova residue. NGC 4945Where the pandom lives, a nearby galaxy known to host an active group of children’s stars – so it was logical that the pandum was one of them. After all, NGC 4945 is so near the milky road that astronomical physicists believe they have a strong understanding of the galaxy. We couldn’t miss anything “hidden in sight,” said Shalovinska … Can we?

But the more they try to impose the skin on the established astronomical wisdom, the more challenging it looks. For example, the pandom disappeared when the team examined the same area using X -rays or radio telescopes, and only appears in a millimeter spectrum with ATACAMA Big ML/Submillimter (Alma). Alma’s ability to capture the polarized light also revealed the strange magnetic field in Banintam, which adds to Gaza.

“So we compared its brightness, polarization and spectrum with every extremist being that we can think of-magnetic, pulsating stars, areas that make up stars, and black hole aircraft,” he remembers Shalovinsa. “Nothing is identical.”

But accepting that they hit something completely new, did not raise more questions. What is exactly? Where is the pantam – 10,000 to 100,000 times brighter than magnets and 10 to 100 times more brighter than most supernatural tools -? Can it be connected to a black hole or a neutron star?

She said that the best snapshot in finding the answer may be the investigation of attracting the strange Banentom, “mainly the fingerprint of the magnetic environment.” After all, it was the elegant disturbing alignment of light waves around the pantam that alerted the team to the strangeness of the object.

“Usually, when light is produced in cosmic environments, mixed and disorder comes out because magnetic fields are intertwined,” she explained. “If we are able to measure the (magnetic field of labinum) with more wavelengths or monitor how it changes over time, we can start knowing the prominent forces and whether they are associated with known astronomical things.”

Shabinovinska said: “The Bandum shows us that the universe still surprises us in places that we thought we were well.” “For me, it is a reminder that astronomy is far from finishing; we still start discovering a full range of cosmic things there.”

The new research represents another strong example of Astronomy is a multi -rotating astronomyWhere astronomers use different types of signals to investigate one source. newly, Astrologists have found a very black hole Using a gravitational lens. In this case, scientists have studied a specific behavior-polarization-besides traditional methods of achieving their results.