Scientists Catch Mysterious Radio Signals From Outer Space

Illustration of a mysterious radio signal from outer space (CSIRO / Andrew Howells)

JAKARTA - Is it true that there are living things that live in outer space? Is it true that aliens are real? Until now no one has been able to solve that. But it wasn't long before scientists discovered something surprising: a mysterious radio signal reply.

Scientists managed to catch radio signal waves from outer space that come periodically. This event is believed to be a major discovery for detecting the periodicity of signals that scientists refer to as fast radio bursts (FRBs).

Quoting from the South China Morning Post, FRBs are the beats or transmissions of radio waves in a matter of milliseconds in space. Each radio wave emission occurs once, but some times and sporadically.

Researchers and scientists believe this signal has a wave pattern that occurs every 16 days. Where for four days, the signal will release one or two beats every hour, then will return to silence for 12 days. This cycle has been repeated for more than a year and originates in the farthest galaxies from Earth, which is 500 million light years away.

"The discovery of a periodicity of 16.35 days in the source of the FRB. The repeated signal is an important clue to the nature of this object," said researchers from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Expreiment (CHIME) FBRs.

The observations, known as FRBs 1890916.J0158 + 65, were observed between 16 September 2018 and 30 October 2019. The blast beats were grouped into four-day periods using the CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia.

But until now scientists have not succeeded in solving the mystery of the signal from outer space. As for the mysterious radio signal, it was first detected in 2007 in a certain part of the sky and emitted many flashes to the earth.

Other researchers are also still guessing the source of the mysterious signal from outer space. Some say the signal comes from celestial bodies orbiting around other stars or planets. There are also those who call this signal capture coming from the remnants of a supernova explosion.

"But the theory still doesn't explain how celestial bodies can send out such signals on a regular basis. Another possibility is that the wind and stars may alternately increase or block signals from objects behind them. Or it could be that the source is a rotating celestial body," said Science. X.

Meanwhile, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that the signal from outer space is a form of cosmic energy event, with a quite extreme scale. It is believed that this finding is not an alien work that many people believe.

“Even very intelligent species are highly unlikely to produce this kind of energy. And so far no patterns have been detected that suggest any living thing was at play, "explained MIT.

Fast radio bursts last only a few milliseconds, which makes it difficult to accurately determine where they came from. Furthermore, the researchers believe that future observations could help them find other patterns of beating other radio signals.