No One Knows What's Sending These Signals Every 44 Minutes
Links: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09077-w https://www.icrar.org/xray-transient/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02452-z
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw38l4sKcz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Ap41yTmBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW8zgVbxDY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nml_adF1v4I
map: https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/RACS/RACStour/index.html
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Hi is there a link for the interactive map you showed us about halfway through? I find your videos fascinating
Yeah Antov is awesome. His videos is even more fascinating if you're into esotericism and symbolism.
Perhaps it is star with a planetary system like our sun. The various planets would block the emissions from the star. Moreover, there might be a planet like Jupiter, a failed star with emissions in the radio spectrum. Such a planet could have a slow rotation compared to pulsars or magnestars. Modeling such a configuration would be a nightmare, and would require a lot more data from that object. Nevertheless, given the complications between the interactions of the objects it would seem premature to declare the need for new physics. As I recall binary stars are very common, and perhaps more common than solitary suns such as our sun. In fact if Jupiter has been able to acquire enough mass to be a star then this would have been a binary star system. Given that Saturn is also a planet of comparable size to the failed star Jupiter, it makes me wonder if there are any systems of stars with more than one star orbiting a massive central star. Have any such star systems been observed?
well there are several binaries where one star is much larger than the other, but just like with most massive objects they just have a central point of orbit and neither one orbits the other directly. These are called barycenter points https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter_(astronomy) Fun fact: sun and jupiter also have one, so jupiter is not technically in orbit as most people imagine but both the sun and jupiter orbits one another with the barycenter slightly away from the sun NASA explains it here: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/barycenter/en/
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The consistent double peak in the X-ray light curve suggests the timing is orbit-related or rotation-related rather than some sort of surface condition (flares, collapse tectonics). I’m no astronomer or physicist or mathematician, but it seems to me that whatever this is, it’s some sort of complex interacting binary or trinary. It’s the X-ray secondary peak that is catching my attention. As for the sudden start up a couple of years ago… some sort of impact onto one of the stellar-sized components? Comet etc. whacking a white dwarf in a close binary system? Something happened to provide “fuel” (or quickly expose an already existing source). Or not, I’m just guessing :)