This is exciting new for those who “want to believe.”
M82 Galaxy
MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK detected Radio waves emitting from the M82 Galaxy at 4 TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT a year ago and have been monitoring since then.
The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.
It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.
Full story here, talks about black holes, quasars, supernova’s all the cool stuff
