Radio Waves Linked to Mysterious Source
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A powerful burst of radio waves from near the center of our galaxy may have come from a previously unknown type of space object, U.S. astronomers reported in the journal Nature.
Some experts nicknamed the mysterious source a “burper.” Radio telescope observations revealed multiple bursts from the source during a seven-hour period from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, 2002 -- five bursts repeating at remarkably constant intervals. The source could be a brown dwarf or a magnetar -- a star with a powerful magnetic field.
