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08.02.2012

Something strange is going on in the nearby Cigar Galaxy (aka M82). According to one of the authors of the discovery, British astrophysicist Tom Maxlow from the Astrophysical Center at Jodrel Bank, back in May last year, while observing the explosion of a Supernova (SN2008iz) in this galaxy, scientists, using the MERLIN radio telescope network, discovered that from its central part began receive radio signals unlike anything they have ever been able to detect in space.

The bright spot of radio emission lasted only a few days, then sharply reduced its brightness, but still did not disappear from view and did not change the spectrum. According to scientists, this is unlikely to be a trace of a supernova, since it usually has a different emission spectrum. In addition, the transverse velocity of the source discovered by scientists is four times the speed of light.

However, physicists do not betray this phenomenon and call it an "optical illusion". According to them, this can be observed if a gas jet rushes at them at a small angle, heated by a black hole and accelerated to a sufficiently high speed. Under these conditions, they say, the effects of the theory of relativity come into play, and it seems to us that the object moves with a transverse velocity exceeding the speed of light.

However, the explanation of scientists does not fit into the real picture. Despite the fact that the Cigar Galaxy is similar to ours, there is no black hole at the center of it. All three of its black holes are not in the center, and where the strange signal comes from, there is no black hole. It was assumed that the superluminal effect was caused by a certain microquasar. That would be a good explanation, but there is nothing like a microquasar, they should shine brighter, and besides, microquasars should emit powerful X-rays, which this object does not emit. "So we don't know what it is," says Tom Maxlow.

Galaxy M82 is located in Ursa Major, 12 million light-years from Earth. Like ours, it is a spiral galaxy, but half the size. Its distinguishing feature is the explosive birth of massive stars.

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