{"id":10664,"date":"2022-03-22T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1382994"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:48:30","slug":"ghostly-sky-circles-that-baffled-astronomers-might-be-explosions-from-distant-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10664","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ghostly sky circles\u2019 that baffled astronomers might be explosions from distant galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2019, my colleagues and I discovered spooky glowing rings in the sky using CSIRO\u2019s ASKAP radio telescope<\/a> in Western Australia. The rings were unlike anything seen before, and we had no idea what they were.<\/p>\n

We dubbed them odd radio circles or ORCs. They continue to puzzle us, but new data<\/a> from South Africa\u2019s MeerKAT<\/a> telescope are helping us solve the mystery.<\/p>\n

We can now see each ORC is centered on a galaxy too faint to be detected earlier. The circles are most likely enormous explosions of hot gas, about a million light-years across, emanating from the central galaxy.<\/p>\n

Our paper showing these results<\/a> has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n

A closer look<\/h2>\n

We now have beautiful images of one of these rings taken with South Africa\u2019s MeerKAT radio telescope, which shows the ORC in stunning detail.<\/p>\n

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