![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/stellar-object-found-beyond-death-line-it-defies-logic-scientists-admit/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/lm_deathlinestar_offplat-copy.jpg&description=DEFYING DEATh All recommendations within this article are informed by expert editorial opinion. If you click on a link in this story we may earn affiliate revenue. Charlotte Edwards , Assistant Technology and Science Editor Published : 20:35, 21 Jul 2023 Updated : 20:36, 21 Jul 2023 SCIENTISTS have discovered a very bright stellar object that's defying logic. They think it's a new type of magnetar, which is a collapsed core of a supergiant star with an extremely powerful magnetic field. 1 A newly discovered stellar object is defying what was previously thought possible Credit: ICRAR The object in question is located about 15,000 light-years from Earth. It's not behaving how a magnetar usually does. The object is rotating and emitting pulses as is to be expected but these activities are not slowing down. Usually, a magnetar stops rotating after a few months when it reaches something called the "death line". According to Live Science , the death line is a threshold that is met when the collapsed star core can no longer produce any high-energy radiation. It's thought the newly discovered magnetar has defied this threshold for around 30 years. A team of researchers has published its findings about the object in the journal Nature . Lead study author and astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker explained what it was like to first see the object in a statement . She said: "We were stumped. So we started searching for similar objects to find out if it was an isolated event or just the tip of the iceberg." Adding: "The object we've discovered is spinning way too slowly to produce radio waves—it's below the death line. "Assuming it's a magnetar, it shouldn't be possible for this object to produce radio waves. But we're seeing them. 'And we're not just talking about a little blip of radio emission. 'Every 22 minutes, it emits a five-minute pulse of radio wavelength energy, and it's been doing that for at least 33 years." The astronomer says whatever the object is and whatever is pow){kind=link}
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SCIENTISTS have discovered a very bright stellar object that’s defying logic.
They think it’s a new type of magnetar, which is a collapsed core of a supergiant star with an extremely powerful magnetic field.
The object in question is located about 15,000 light-years from Earth.
It’s not behaving how a magnetar usually does.