'Assuming it's a magnetar, it shouldn't be possible for this object to produce radio waves.

'The object we've discovered is spinning way too slowly to produce radio waves – it's below the death line,' Hurley-Walker said. The magnetic field powers the release of electromagnetic energy, and GPM J1839−10 appears to be spinning too slowly to produce the energy observed. Over time, the magnetic field of magnetars decays and it starts rotating more slowly. LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational wavesīut it has strange properties that don't seem to fit with other magnetars.Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres.

Existential dread time: One day Earth's oceans will boil.Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life.'They missed it because they hadn't expected to find anything like it.' GPM J1839−10 behaves like magnetar, a type of neutron star, the leftover compressed core of a dead star, that spins and has a magnetic field over a trillion times stronger than Earth's. I was five years old when our telescopes first recorded pulses from this object, but no one noticed it, and it stayed hidden in the data for 33 years,' she said. 'That was quite an incredible moment for me. 'It showed up in observations by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India, and the Very Large Array (VLA) in the USA had observations dating as far back as 1988,' Hurley-Walker said.

They found that other observatories had previously spotted the same repetitive signal, but no one had bothered to study it further until now.

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