A radio signal 9 billion light years away: What it means and where it came from

THE the radio signal is about 9 billion light years away Captured from Earth in a new recording discovered by India’s Giant Metwave Radio Telescope.

McGill University said in a statement that this is the first time such a radio signal has been detected at such a great distance. Space.com reported that the signal could mean scientists can begin studying some of the earliest stars and galaxies.

This is not the first time scientists mysterious signal from space.

Last July, astronomers at MIT and other universities in the US and Canada detected a persistent signal from a distant galaxy of unknown astrophysical origin, and in 2020, the mysterious signal from Proxima Centauri made waves.

GMRT is one of the TIFRs (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) and one of India’s biggest projects till date.
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RADIO SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM EARTH 9 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY

But do these signals mean we’re not alone? At the moment there is no answer – though a deliberate signal was sent into space.

Researchers said in 2021, according to Nature Proxima Centauri signal “man-made radio interference” was suspected, and the source of the “fast radio burst” signal was thought to be either a radio pulsar or a magnetar, a type of neutron star.

An undated artist’s impression released by the European Southern Observatory on August 24, 2016 shows the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System.
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“There aren’t many things in the universe that emit strong periodic signals,” said Daniele Micilli, a postdoc at MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Studies. “These are the examples we know in our own galaxy radio pulsars and magnetarsrotating and producing a beamed emission like a beacon. And we think this new signal could be a magnetar or a pulsar on steroids.”