Science Alert reports this, as Ukrinform reports.

According to NASA’s Goddard, this was “an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside our galaxy,” according to Francis Reddy of the eponymous Space Flight Center.

Agency scientists had been analyzing data from the Fermi Space Telescope gamma-ray telescope for 13 years when they noticed a mysterious signal. This powerful telescope can detect gamma rays, energetic bursts of light hundreds of billions of times brighter than human vision. They usually occur during a star explosion or nuclear explosion. While scholars were looking for something completely different, they came across an alternative Sinhala.

“This is a completely accidental discovery. We found a much stronger signal in another part of the sky than where we were looking for,” said cosmologist Oleksandr Kashlinsky of the University of Maryland and Space Flight Center. NASA’s Goddard is presenting the results of the study to the American Astronomical Society.

Scientists searched for one of the earliest features of gamma radiation to create the first atoms, known as the cosmic microwave background, or CTM. Astronomers generally believe that this structure was formed by the movement of the solar system.

But astronomers have detected a signal coming from a similar direction and nearly the same size as another obscure object, containing some of the most energetic cosmic particles they’ve ever detected.

“We found a gamma-ray dipole, but its peak is in the southern sky, away from residual radiation, and its magnitude is 10 times larger than we expected from our motion,” said Goddard astrophysicist Krim Schrader.

According to scientists, this discovery may be related to the cosmic gamma rays observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina in 2017, and given the similarity of their structures, it is stated that the two phenomena may have come from the same unidentified source.

As you may remember, the Hubble telescope captured the collision of two galaxies in a single image.

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