NASA mysterious signal from space which is a reported 240 million light years from Earth is making some astronomers at the center very excited. The NASA mysterious signal was reportedly caught by the European Space Agency as well. According to website SPLOID, astronomers from both authorities noticed the stange yet unidentified signal coming from about 240 million light years from our planet.
According to The Week, the NASA mysterious signal was detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory.
The NASA mysterious signal was reported to be coming from the Perseus Cluster, which is one of the most massive objects in the Universe. The unidentified NASA mysterious signal was found to be a "spike of intensity at a very specific wavelength of X-ray light."
Though scientists have no idea where the NASA mysterious signal came from, one of the leading theories from the agency is very fascinating. NASA reports that of the origin of the NASA mysterious signal may have been 'produced by the decay of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle that has been proposed as a candidate for dark matter.'
According to astronomers, the universe is composed of 85 percent dark matter. However, dark matter reportedly does not emit or absorb light such as "normal" matter in planets, stars, and galaxies, making its detection extremely difficult.
Esra Bulbul of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts told NASA, 'We know that the dark matter explanation is a long shot, but the pay-off would be huge if we're right. So we're going to keep testing this interpretation and see where it takes us.'
The scientists are currently striving to confirm and test this theory on the origin of the NASA mysterious signal, which would be a major breakthrough if successful as nobody has been victorius in directly detecting dark matter.
According to Sploid, the NASA mysterious signal was found through the efforts of a team led by Bulbul. The team reportedly had to undergo 17 days observing the Perseus Cluster which was taken over ten years through NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton.
The search was made difficult as the cluster where the NASA mysterious signal was found is a titan of the skies and one of the most massive known objects in the Universe. It is home to 'thousands of galaxies immersed in a vast cloud of multimillion degree gas.'
This is not reportedly the first time that NASA scientists have made amazing discoveries in this area. In 2003, researchers "listened" to "one of the deepest notes ever detected," which had an oscillation period of 9.6 million years.
Below is the note accelerated:
Meanwhile, the video below shows the location of the Perseus Cluster, where the NASA mysterious signal was detected, on Earth's sky.
NASA mysterious signal origin will probably take some time before being identified. Still, it is amazing what the universe can bring. In the meantime, here's an image of the signal:
Mysterious X-ray signal intrigues astronomers. Could it be dark matter? https://t.co/l3cDZI1XBi @chandraxray pic.twitter.com/7tNrKkoI0l
— NASA (@NASA) June 24, 2014
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