NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al., JPL/CalTech/IPAC, SARAO/MeerKAT, SAO/N. Wolk

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy .

An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely — is emitting X-rays around the same time it’s shooting out radio waves. What’s more, the cycle repeats every 44 minutes, at least during periods of extreme activity.

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Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s Ziteng Andy Wang said in an email from Australia.

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