Bizarre Object Sending Signals Every 6.5 Hours Cannot Be Explained With Modern Physics

[@jakubp.6987]

In fact, it's a notification from official board, that the solar system will have to be demolished to make way for the construction of an intergalactic highway, and we have one year left to submit objections to the demolition.

[@MrSupasonics]

Should I need to ask something to dolphins from local aquarium about it?

[@mr.r0011]

Do I need a towel?

[@nil0bject]

Beware of the leopard

[@logancalaway2887]

Just keep calm

[@dingickso4098]

Oh I thought they gonna use the planet bluster on us for a sec there

[@SoundSpirals]

So good to have videos with a real person and a real voice.

[@Argoon1981]

underrated comment...

[@AMan-xz7tx]

"I sent you my pulsar, pls resond" -The alien on the pulsar transmitter

[@julesknight1511]

"Hide well. Cleanse well."

[@Steevo69]

Give me pictures of Uranus

[@icariusinius8239]

hot-single aliens in your local galaxy

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@icariusinius8239 Must be able to live for billions of years to receive my reply to your reply.

[@Alistair]

@@icariusinius8239 high quality synthetic training data, at the low cost of one M-class planet

[@unclestoma4699]

It's aliens asking about your ships extended warranty

[@sativagirl1885]

Wolfman Jack was re-syndicated (but not reincarnated)

[@reporeport]

lolll, or telling you to put your seatbelt on

[@Walter-wo5sz]

I was thinking alien spam.

[@Cameldactyl]

It's never aliens unfortunately

[@Walter-wo5sz]

I'm just shocked that dark matter wasn't invoked.

[@ActionManDan]

Hello Anton you are a wonderful person.

[@Ezekiel903]

thank you, what's your name?

[@ms.bunniesarecute2287]

Indeed

[@nCaine]

@@Ezekiel903 TONY!

[@Ezekiel903]

@@nCaine Hello Tony, you are a wonderful person!

[@letssaylalala]

Hello wonderful you are an Anton person!

[@FredPlanatia]

Australian square kilometer array pathfinder: ASKAP, let's see if we can't improve that Acronym... Australian Radiotelescope Square kilometer Experiment = ARSE Australian Array Radiotelescope Detector of a Very large Advanced Radiotelescope Combination = ARDVARC

[@MsCrazylegs80]

😂👍🏼

[@joergmaass]

Australian Square Structure Radio Interference Pathfinder = ASSRIP

[@scroopynooperz9051]

Australian Radio telescope Square kilometer Experiment - Pathfinding Large System. ARSE - PLS 😂

[@Happidap]

⁠​⁠Austrailian Static Southern Hemespheres Observatory for Looking at Extraterrestrials- ASSHOLE

[@mrbaab5932]

I thought you all called your country 'Stralia', lol.

[@715shaun]

Maybe a pulsar that wouldn't normally point its beam at us. But, it has a black hole compainion that bends it to us once per orbit. Just a thought. Anton is awesome!

[@dantesrb]

It doesn't even have to be BH. Any object can bend radiowawes just enough to hit us, once per revolution. BH is better. A simple model can explain this.

[@TheJadeFist]

Ya It doesn't have to be that crazy, but that's my guess too that there's probably at least 2 objects, and that 6.5 hours or whatever is the orbital. Either it's deflecting a signal, lensing to enhance to signal, or something more bizarre like the 2nd object interacting with the magnetic fields of the main object, that lines up at us ever 6 hours.

[@TheJadeFist]

@@dantesrb What about an iron core of a massive planet? Not bending the signal persay, as much as generating the signal as it flies through the host object's magnetic field or is super charged from a pulsar beam, like a natural radio on steroids. This situation is probably not long term sustainable in cosmic scales, that planet is gonna get roasted / torn apart by tidal forces but not an impossible scenario.

[@dantesrb]

@ Yes, a metal core would be like a lance for radiowaves... computer simulation will explain soon.

[@benfinesilver2250]

The answer is 42

[@ThatonedudeCR12956]

Anton, what you're describing sounds incredibly similar to problems found in RADAR systems. It's generally referred to as "Anomalous Propagation" or "ducting." Essentially the receiver has "envelopes" of pulses where it will assume the received signals are accurate and not cancel it out as an error. There are specific frequencies which appear to be different than they really are simply due to physics and how we measure frequencies. It sounds like a measurement error that would be determined to be an error after more measurements are taken.

[@LittleRainGames]

6 and a half hours apart though? And only from one specific spot in the sky. I dont believe you are correct.

[@musashi4856]

In other words, bird droppings ... 🕊🦅

[@chabis]

I recently got recommended a channel which apparently just slapped random more or less space-related video snippets together and let somebody (?) read a text about astronomy. Great to be back on a channel which actually adds some *related* illustrations!

[@ZOMBIEo07]

There are alot of AI generated space related channels for some reason.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

​@@ZOMBIEo07I was a robot once once

[@WickeD72]

Anton is great, I also like PBS spacetime

[@MetastaticMaladies]

There is so much we still don’t understand about nature. Whether it’s about our own biology and world or the immense universe, we really have much to learn about everything still, and it’s fascinating and exciting.

[@kelleyrc5671]

It brings me the feeling of awe that we have only glimpsed the truth

[@jebes909090]

trisolarians

[@MetastaticMaladies]

@@jebes909090 Are the sophons here, already?

[@jjt1881]

Thus the immense joy of the search for knowledge.

[@jjt1881]

@@MetastaticMaladies Yes, we are. YOU ARE BUGS!!!

[@YourCritic]

Perhaps it is indeed an ordinary pulsar with a sub-minute pulse, however, there is an orbiting cloud of dust with gaps that have an orbial period of 6.5 hours (and 3.2 hours). This is consistent with the fact the magnetic axis is almost 90 degrees from its rotational axis, hence the orbital plane of any planets and dust would align with the pulses' direction. There are exoplanets out there with ultra-short periods (sub 9 hours) so this is entirely possible.

[@harryrabbit2870]

Anton, thank you for your post. Your calm explanations of science are interesting. Keep up the good work, buddy.

[@MossyMozart]

It boggles me how he is able to research, understand a subject, write a script, video, then edit so frequently! He is very calm on camera, but he must be a whirlwind behind it.

[@Setanta1913]

Hello wonderful Anton this is person 😊

[@ronwesterfield1276]

I for one love Anton's channel. I learn a lot. I have to say to all out there . be kind and intelligent.

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙂

[@incoggneeto6937]

Anton - Single-handedly creating a video version of a science-based encyclopaedia, akin to Wikipedia. Cross-linking all videos to all other related videos. Much appreciated!

[@mainerockflour3462]

I love that response: "I dunno"

[@Architect172]

quote, attributed to a Japanese fisher: "Not every ripple comes from the lake's embrace; some are stirred by the fish within."

[@astrolingus]

❤

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

That's just how it is. Literally tons of unexplainable phenomenon, and almost all of them illustrate that mankind doesn't know as much as it thinks it does.

[@adelinad3513]

And still they feel gods and want to upload their concience in a vessel. The end of them will be excruciating as once in, you can't get out ...perpetual soul pain. 😢

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

*Reflection is both key and lock.* Yet, obviously, the majority of mankind isn't able to practice a skill which it does not possess. It is what it is. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins..." --DD1 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Fraser Cain has interviewed dozens of astrophysicists, cosmologists, et al. They thrive on new, unexplained discoveries. It's usually the uneducated who think we know more than we actually do.

[@Karthik-pn2yj]

​@@adelinad3513souls can't feel pain. i doubt they even actually exist

[@cacogenicist]

It knows a hell of a lot more than it used to.

[@ericblenner-hassett3945]

One option that has not been looked into is the path of the signal passing by a black hole. The gravitational changes of the speed may account for the slowing of the signal, yet no one seems to have tried to map optically to find out if there is anything near it.

[@MattHobbie]

I always find it humorous when scientists "find something that shouldn't exist." It highlights how little we humans actually know about our universe.

[@kamikaziking]

human phasma of perception is still in its embryonic stage in the grand scheme of things

[@adelinad3513]

Scientists are mostly boxed minded people and they start with flawed assesments we call our curriculums. They can't even properly explain the pyramids with the narativecthat is allowed today to us, muggles. The sceintists are muggles too.

[@burtbackattack]

When we find something that by are current understanding is "impossible" I find the mystery of it kind of exciting. It means we might start to understand the universe a little more if we can figure it out.

[@rthompson938]

The same goes for our past on planet Earth.

[@Nethershaw]

It's always actually *the reporters* saying that, though. The scientists are just going "hey, look, something new!" We are ridiculously naive infants, but no scientist believes the universe is beholden to make a lick of sense to us at all.

[@TheDoc73]

I think there's another reasonable explanation that you did not discuss. I don't know if any of the researchers have discussed this, but what if what we see here is a neutron star that is orbiting an unseen object? Every time we are seeing the signal, it's in the perfect alignment to face earth continuously, but then as it orbits it points away again. Even the secondary signal could make sense as there could be a specific alignment that causes the signal to be bent by gravitational lensing to point toward earth from the other side of its partner object. 6.5 hours would be an extremely short orbital period, but physics get a little crazy when we're talking neutron stars.

[@Hovercraftltd]

Excellent illustration of those galactic filaments in the graphics and aso the massive magnetic fields. The filaments being Birkeland Currents that also provide the symbiotic energy to power the magnetic fields, are they also driving this latest inexplicable observation .... probably.

[@justanotherperson2960]

In a parallel world, some alien youtuber would be making a video “Just pranked an Earthling with a pulsar” with a shocked alien thumbnail.

[@derrickrr5516]

Hard to take “ass cap” seriously. 😂

[@nome2057]

Thats the Aussies for you. If it were located in the US or UK it would be called something far more serious, butt plug I'm guessing.

[@enverse244]

As opposed to an “ass hat” I’ve met a few of those

[@helmeteye]

It sounds like a serious condition to me.

[@derrickrr5516]

@@enverse244full time or part time?

[@wadehathawaymusic]

Especially if it comes from down under...

[@Carl-e1x]

No aliens? Disappointed am I. I love your channel! Real science - no strong opinions just facts - and cool videos! I bought you a sandwich (or a beer).

[@adelinad3513]

Portals with evil aliens coming soon for you...plot twist..they are a bit demonic 😂😂

[@Carl-e1x]

@@adelinad3513 Your probably right. We're not ready to meet aliens just yet. They may look at us and think "what primitive creatures. I wonder what they taste like."

[@lolocemoipopo7537]

Read Billy Meier

[@artificercreator]

Maybe there was a very dense object that orbited the "pulsar" from a distannce and dragged their spin velocity gradually: at the correct distance, mass and conterwise rotation to the pulsar. It is very interesting!

[@aquariusdreaming]

Thanks!

[@meyou2696]

Thank you wonderful Anton!

[@ones_flow5652]

Hi Anton. I just wanted to say that you look like a shy person. If so: You are sharing, teaching and showing so much of really interesting knowledge and in a very calm and pleasent way. You're a legend. No need to be shy. 🙂 Best greetings!

[@charliemopps4926]

Its tidally locked in orbit around a black hole... therefor, as it orbits, it rotates. We're seeing the pulses that occur when its rotated to point towards us. So the pulse rate is its orbit, not the actual pulsar rate. fyi: I've no idea what I'm talking about. 😛

[@MausMasher54]

Actually I was thinking that's the Warning Beacon the Nostromo Ignored????

[@WilliamCzaja-d2q]

Sounds logical to me

[@Slumplord52]

I’d buy it

[@KindHappyLove]

That’s almost exactly what I just commented as well. I didn’t say a black hole… I just said another object, but a black hole best fits the observations.

[@brown2889]

I knew it had something to do with the star collapsing into a black hole. Wasn’t sure if it was itself or it orbiting one. I like that answer though.😊

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

Hello, Wonderful Anton! I always stay through your credits because I watch the Earthrise segment. That is a clever choice of elements to include. I wish you could run that without any overlays. Hehehe... That's OK, I know where else to find it too. You should get a Peace Prize for the amount of education you give to the lay persons out here.

[@someguy-k2h]

Johny, it's cold outside. Be sure you put on your ASKAP before you go out there.

[@kevintewey1157]

😂

[@scroopynooperz9051]

And don't light a match immediately after you take it off 😂

[@mikkimikki5376]

You are a riot! ❤

[@someguy-k2h]

@ That is the best comeback. LOVED IT!

[@JohnDoe-420]

I would imagine that the longer the period of pulsation, the less likely you are to observe any given pulsing object if you randomly sample some region of sky for some set time. There are probably a lot of long period objects that we simply don't notice due to not keeping a giant radio array pointed exactly at them for hours.

[@greglincir9037]

that is a great point and exciting/slightly terrifying

[@3dguy839]

Please speak with TERRENCE HOWARD IMMEDIATELY

[@MossyMozart]

@@3dguy839 - Lets not. Math was challenging enough to learn in reality.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

If you took a huge cloud of quartz crystals and Rice Krispies, as it collapsed it would emit random Snaps, Crackles, and Pops of Piezoelectric emissions that would look nothing like this signal at all, so I think we can safely rule THAT right out too. 🖖😉👍

[@DeltaMikeTorrevieja]

This would only work in the Milky Way. /s

[@TheJadeFist]

Part of a complete breakfast that's out of this world.

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

Very good point. You should publish immediately!

[@CriminalonCrime]

"Doesn't resemble artificial communication" Ever hear of a lighthouse!?

[@CriminalonCrime]

6 hours, 360/6=60, 60 cycles per hour, that's a simile for alternating current!

[@pmboston]

Yes. That was the first proposed explanation of pulsars. It’s never aliens. As a lifelong devourer of science fiction and science fact this doesn’t please me.😢 But although intelligent communicating may exist elsewhere, or elsewhen, there isn’t any on any exoplanets so far, and our sample is in the thousands of worlds by now.

[@pineapplepizzasandwich1974]

Probably space swamp gas reflecting off a space cloud.

[@CriminalonCrime]

@@pineapplepizzasandwich1974 a dicfur slapping off a iron planet and passing off through a corona...

[@CriminalonCrime]

@@pineapplepizzasandwich1974 it's a deekfur

[@mikkimikki5376]

I added a 👍 to about five different theories. 😊

[@michaelsmokowicz5244]

Hi Anton. Love your videos and calm manner. (you are indeed a wonderful person!) Full disclosure, Astrophysics is NOT even close to my field! (and I suspect that the smart folks looking into this have already considered and discarded the following idea) Has anyone considered that the 6.5 hour period corresponds to a precession rate and not the actual object spinning rate?

[@Ratzfourtyfour]

So... it's a time dilated pulsar.

[@Deletirium]

That's a plausible explanation.

[@TooSlowTube]

That's what I was thinking. If it's orbiting really close to a black hole, the signal from it should be slowed down a lot.

[@WaterShowsProd]

This was my immediate reaction. Rather than wondering how it was spinning so slowly, assume that it's spinning so fast it's experiencing time dilation. Then I saw someone suggest it's orbiting another object so the pulse is only aimed at us at one point during its orbit, which is also a very good idea.

[@TheJadeFist]

That's a fun thought.

[@richarddavis2605]

Cool idea

[@egggge4752]

Another plusar is destructivly interfering with this one, but since their rotation speeds are slightly different it shifts every 6.5 hours out of the range of this interference.

[@andym4695]

A pulsar spinning at 700 rpm is mind-bending in and of itself.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

That comment showed how massively dense... a pulsar is. 🤪

[@alessandrorossini8704]

RPM it's "Per Minute" but Anton said it's 700 rotations per second, even more mind boggling... Bye. 👋🏻

[@Kai...999]

That’s not really a fast rotation tbh. Guy above me states the time variable is seconds not minutes. So yeah it’s pretty fast then.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@Kai...999 It's a dense mass with massive density that does not take up much space.

[@casualpanda4100]

Maybe there is thick matter enveloping the pulsar and you have holes in such a structure that lets the bursts shine through

[@Roman.Villain]

7:30 Feels like my type of neutron star: lazy.

[@arthurzettel6618]

Algorithm and Cipher time. I believe that it is an attempt to communicate by another civilization. A rotation signal every 6.5 hours could also be a distress call or again an attempt to make first contact.

[@KafkaExMachina]

Couldn't this be explained with a fast enough rotation to generate the radio waves but a really wobbly but regular axis of rotation? Where the Earth is only located at the edge of a single petal of the more complex overall rotation? So we can only pick up the given signal when the axis of rotation completes the complex circuit in our direction?

[@pauljs75]

I'd check to see if it has any broadband signal properties to it, and if anything pulses across adjacent frequencies while counting in binary - that's going to be the easiest and most obvious hint to give that it's not something natural. It doesn't have to do anything more fancy than that to show something distinctly artificial, although that sequence could be mixed in with other information on a repeating interval. It's probably not that, but it'd be a fun thing to check for and consider.

[@apemancommeth8087]

Cool shirt Anton, love the color! 🤓👍

[@sumarlindfors9991]

Where is it coming from? What direction? constellation?

[@druids17]

Yes, lol. Thank you. I've already scanned the web and found nothing on its celestial coordinates, its location in the stars. I guess it's a secret 😂

[@Super-J10]

My guess is Romulans…….its always the damn Romulans

[@luisestebanr6311]

Khaaaaaaaaaan!😡

[@geraldc5165]

A repetitive Faringi temu add.

[@kelvinjohnson8148]

Those damn Romulans!

[@andreaskarahoca8349]

I'm commenting without any education or knowledge - first thing that came to my mind was that maybe it's such a colossal Pulsar, bigger than we have ever seen before, that's how long it takes to rotate. Maybe it would explain the intensity/power of the signal with such a slow spin?

[@715shaun]

Great question! If a pulsar gets big enough, it will eventually cross a threshold and become a black hole and thus invisible.

[@jacquelinewillems981]

It's the center of our milkyway galaxy. Pretty big is an understatement.

[@aresaurelian]

It spins so fast it looks like it is a constant light, and the periodic pulses are the procession, not rotation.

[@darylbrown8834]

Was about to comment pretty much the same thing.

[@walternullifidian]

I think you mean precession, not procession.

[@cacogenicist]

Wouldn't look constant to sensitive instruments.

[@johnlshilling1446]

​@cacogenicist Exactly. Our advanced instruments are insanely capable of detecting -- OFF THE CHAIN -- periods/ frequencies.

[@tdoubt100]

Just what I was tinking. The pulsar is still rotating fast but precession sweeps the beam past us every 6.5 hours?

[@TheMcEwens419]

I’m really starting to think “Our physic is only ours”

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

You're now truly knowing.. but such a wisdom comes with a cost.

[@AnimeSunglasses]

One of my best friends has the slightly more than half serious hypothesis that the universe literally gets weirder as soon as we understand everything it's thrown at us so far. There are moments when I wonder if she's right.

[@adelinad3513]

Incomplete for sure and based on falsities..like our connection to ether and the universe is completly ignored. Only mater , narrow view. 😢

[@CriminalonCrime]

Nah, This is huge, they're not looking at it right, that's a unique signal denoting electrical advancement, that signal is 6-6-1/2 hours. 360 degree universe/6 hours is 60 cycles an hour +/- 5%, that's exactly how alternating current works!

[@evil1st]

Youre right. Physics is ours. We invented it. Nothing conforms to our rules. We just make up rules based on how certain things act and react. 🤓

[@JonnyHolms]

Hello Anton. ..Thank you for another great video 📹 👍 😊

[@felixar90]

It’s a magnetar around a black hole, moving away so fast that the X rays are redshifted into radio waves. And the emission period is the same as the sidereal period. Or maybe when it’s coming back it’s so blue shifted we can’t detect it.

[@witwisniewski2280]

We need a Large Synoptic Survey Telescope for radio waves. There are likely lots of mystery sources that we miss because our radio telescopes look in one direction at a time, while optical survey telescope take images covering huge parts of the sky, capturing millions of objects at once.

[@fawn1785]

I bought 2 "wonderful person" T-shirts as a gift at Christmas. 🎄 Perfect!

[@moondogaudiojones1146]

That’s very interesting and it’s got to be frustrating to know that theories, text books, etc are all going to have to change, like every 3 years as we discover new anomalies. Good episode

[@alessandrorossini8704]

I think that uncertanty is the most exiting thing for astronomers and astrophysicists, they're the luckiest among humans, with their nose always pointing at the sky and dreaming about the endless mistery up there, just like little kids they don't know what boredom is, they're always on for new things and new discoveries.

[@vileluca]

Please be aliens Please be aliens

[@rollingmaster7708]

friendly aliens *

[@julesknight1511]

Be careful what you wish for.

[@jamesprice8149]

My ride is on the way.😂

[@enverse244]

@@vileluca message translation: “shhh they’ll hear you…”

[@lorenzoblum868]

@@julesknight1511 no aliens necessary to eradicate the human species the way we're damaging our ecosystem. Only a matter of time.

[@MetatronsCube23]

capacitance build up. "The time constant (τ) is a crucial factor in determining the charging time of a capacitor. It's calculated by multiplying the resistance (R) in ohms and the capacitance (C) in farads: τ = R * C. Charging Process: When a capacitor is connected to a voltage source through a resistor, it begins to charge. The voltage across the capacitor increases gradually, following an exponential curve. Exponential Charging: The voltage across the capacitor (Vc) at any given time (t) during charging can be calculated using the following formula: Vc(t) = V(1 - e^(-t/τ)), where V is the source voltage. 5 Time Constants: It's generally considered that a capacitor is fully charged after approximately 5 time constants (5τ). At this point, the capacitor voltage has reached about 99% of the source voltage. Initial Charging Rate: Initially, the charging rate is rapid because the current flowing through the resistor is high. As the capacitor charges, the current decreases, and the charging rate slows down. Discharge: Similarly, the discharge of a capacitor through a resistor also follows an exponential decay, with the voltage across the capacitor decreasing over time."

[@AuntLizzie]

..... if you say so....I'll see what my husband sàys. He knows about these things....🤔

[@bobinthewest8559]

Hypothesis 1: It is a pulsar that was recently perturbed by something extremely massive (like a super massive black hole)… and that perturbation resulted in putting the pulsar into a strange “double wobble”, so even though it is spinning at a high velocity, its beam only points in our direction once every 6.5 hours. Hypothesis 2: It is a pulsar orbiting a super massive black hole (about once every 6.5 hours), and it is tilted so that one of its beams is pointed at the black hole, and the other beam points at us as it transits the black hole.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

Well, Bob... you are not my uncle, but I agree with your first, except for the perturbation method. A: It does not have to be "recently". It could have been as far back as its birth. But my idea I just posted, but it was before I read yours, is very similar. A tight, normal spin rate cone on a normal pulsar that somehow experienced a perturbation that caused a secondary wobble, and that pair of wobbles points one of the jets at us as it wobbles around. Or it could even be three resonant wobbles in there. But the primary jet producing spin is there. Maybe they are all like this and we just did not consider such a dense object spinning "strangely". Perhaps the perturbation is ongoing. Maybe directly behind it from out POV and we do not see it. Or could a nearby galaxy pull one into multiple wobbles?

[@196cupcake]

This is my favorite kind of video of yours.

[@kitwest61]

The slowest pulsar found so far. As Homer Simpson might say

[@MCDainter]

ffs, cant believe im seeing a simpsons movie reference in 2025 xDDD

[@vicbertfartingclack4559]

6:23 probably my favourite moment in this entire video.

[@Thiniking]

Science can't explain it... Yep...Aliens.

[@mandogundam5779]

Uh pardon me sir or madam, thats Shadow Aliens or Mr. Shadow Aliens to the rest of us plebs👍😆

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Nobody is saying that, that's all you..

[@TheDredConspiracy]

hmm, was this episode missing the obligatory denial that it's aliens?

[@Karthik-pn2yj]

​@@SubjectiveFunnymaybe learn to get a joke

[@MagnusQuake]

its a star or neutron star that once was spinning and perhaps just stopped spinning over time and has fallen off its axis. a hint to what happened to Uranus maybe?

[@fishgolfguy]

Apparently 99.999998 of all things cannot be explained by modern physics.

[@eztvlight1202]

To much money in scarcity.

[@adelinad3513]

Same with medicine and the human body. But still , they mess with it

[@DeltaMikeTorrevieja]

Just wait 100 years. Modern physics will catch up.

[@mercurywoodrose]

Whereas religion and superstition explains less than 0.000000000000000000000000001% of the universe

[@cacogenicist]

Source for that number?

[@DDTPZX]

how do we know the radio emissions are not being interfered with/canceled out? With such large distances at play, would it not be possible to rule that out?

[@kaarlimakela3413]

Usually when we hear 'it can't really happen', we figure out the reading or interpretation needs work.

[@SaltyVet74]

Thats the physics comunity for ya, It blows my mind when a scientist says anything like that..(NDT comes to mind) Physics is extremely important, and the advances in the field often are giant leaps in understanding of Reality, so if you can see an effect, and its repeatable in some way, then OBVIOUSLY it can exist or the observation is wrong. 1 thing is for certain, its not IMPOSSIBLE...

[@kamikaziking]

they usually use language like that to get funding , scientists are not benign and willing to heal the world they will do everything in their power to assure they will get funded as long as possible even if they produce 0 results.

[@qevvy]

@@SaltyVet74 The "under our current models" is silent. 😄

[@SaltyVet74]

@@qevvy ROFL.. I guess it is..

[@rhydianbanner3590]

could be the remnant of a merger involving a neutron star and something else. The fast spin of the neutron star is slowed by absorbing the matter with an opposing angular momentum slowing it down to multiple hours between rotations. The degenerate matter interacts in an unknown way with the leftover dust creating these radio pulses. Or the neutron star could even consume/replace the core of a star doing something similar with it's outer layers

[@BadYogiAGB]

6:10 something feels historic about these images.

[@crawkn]

Although it relies on fairly rare coincidences, a neutron star with low angular momentum would necessarily result from a merger of two small neutron stars with similar but roughly opposite angular momenta. And a low net angular momentum would seem to be a prerequisite for the transverse orientations of the rotational and magnetic poles. While an explanation has yet to be confirmed, it is not mysteriously elusive.

[@derek303]

0:20 Eh he he he eh... he said ASKAP

[@tuckersabath2099]

Hopefully the mothership is coming for donald.

[@nudoge]

tru

[@dianaquinn5822]

What’s funnier is I read this comment a whole 2 seconds before I heard him say it😂 😂

[@cyanidejunkie]

That’s asshat’s cousin.

[@CherryFlambé]

Dang it, I was trying to my brain do science but now its all butts and lies!

[@couldntfindafreename]

It may be a neutron star orbiting near a massive black hole, slowing down its time from our point of view. But that would down-shift the frequency as well. Need to observe it much longer to see whether any longer periodicity exists there.

[@KindHappyLove]

Could it not be a Pulser that is orbiting another object? That way every 6 hours we can detect its pulse, but then it pointed in a different direction for the rest of the time…

[@B055DERB055E]

This something would have to be quite large in comparison. Apart from that, the deflected radiation of the pulsar, by this other object, would have to be detected in gravitational difference in the light spectrum

[@lars1013]

It could be a pulsar tidally locked into an orbit of a much larger black hole, in which case, it could be emitting long-period gravitational waves.

[@Kualinar]

It's interesting to note that the duration of the pulse in the S-band (2187.5 MHz) is less than half as long as that in the UHF band (816 KHz).

[@jaizo_]

Unexplained signals that happen at an interval is the most common anton petrov video topic, theres one of these every like month

[@cheebee2659]

ay, if its truly fascinating AND gets the clicks.... wehey!!!! its win win

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

​@@cheebee2659Fraser Cain has interviewed dozens of astrophysicists, cosmologists, et al. They thrive on new, unexplained discoveries. So does Anton.

[@scottnorin]

Purely speculative question. Can a pulsar’s emission be detected via gravitational lensing around a near field object? Is this a kind of signal that is already categorized? If there is a slight change in alignment, maybe this causes the variable signal?

[@roybatty2030]

It’s an EV alien craft with a dead battery seeking help

[@tielojongmans3826]

Has anyone ever worked out precession and nutation of a pulsar? If a pulsar is slightly misaligned to earth it may still hit earth at some point during its precession cycle. These bursts are about 200 seconds, that would give clues if this is at all a realistic possibility.

[@stephenbachman132]

its proably a old Neutron star ending its life. Or the Formation of a new black hole

[@adelinad3513]

😂😂 sure

[@stephenbachman132]

@adelinad3513 well what do you think it is

[@richard--s]

What about the standard solution for regulsr pulses: A binary system, one of them is a pulsar (to make the emission)? And they orbit around each other once every 6 or 8 or so hours?

[@Cereal.interface]

keep uoading news dude

[@adamflores482]

Love these videos!!

[@richardzeitz54]

Scientists saying that something "should not actually be possible or exist at all" is ridiculous. A scientist would say "we can't explain its existence," or "it's probably an anomaly" or "it's an illusion," or something like that, but not "it shouldn't exist." If it's been observed and it's not some sort of illusory phenomenon, then it exists. It isn't that the object makes no sense, it's that we can't make sense of the object.

[@TooSlowTube]

They don't say that, as a rule. It's just a common form of click-bait on YT videos and pop science articles.

[@richardzeitz54]

@@TooSlowTube yeah, that makes sense. And the title does say "...cannot be explained with modern physics," which is a little more reasonable. Altho I bet if we knew what was happening, it wouldn't require new physics to explain it. I really like this channel - he picks interesting articles from academic journals. I just like to nitpick because I think he knows better and we, his audience, don't need silly pop-sci language to keep our interest.

[@TooSlowTube]

@ I agree.

[@TheAnimammal]

What about the angular velocity of pulsars anomaly? The fastest pulsars are nowhere near fast enough to match the average angular velocities of existing fastest stars and the slowest ones must have come from stars that were practically not spinning.

[@raymisuto9872]

So the universe has a new mystery and we called it Ass Cap, yet another win for mankind 😆

[@Moon_Cupcake]

You have to admit it will be easy to remember!!

[@alphanaut14]

Question for folks smarter than me: Can neutron stars precess or does their incredible rotational speed force them into alignment like a top? Precession might explain this. It should be workable on paper.

[@curtissharpe7084]

It is a radio satellite.

[@mrwolsy3696]

Yep, too much stuff is up there now. They will never sort though the mess of signals.

[@thezood]

It's absolutely not a satellite. Two measurements is enough to determine that it's not a nearby object just by using parallax, and most likely with other signal properties as well.

[@liwojenkins]

@@mrwolsy3696 You must think there are a lot of guys in 1940s khaki looking at green radar screens and trying to interpret blobs. You are so hilariously behind the tech curve and capabilities that you may as well be discussing ancient Egypt.

[@tiagotiagot]

Some synchrony/resonance with some occluder, maybe even something it is orbiting (or is orbiting it, or a binary object)? Does the gradient of the changing spectrum as it rises and falls (the rate of change at different frequencies) shows any recognizable elemental signatures?

[@jeanefpraxiadis1128]

It’s never aliens

[@vileluca]

Until it is.

[@curtissharpe7084]

Until we later find out it is usually aliens, but we are really good at explaining things away.

[@wfincher]

never say never

[@GoodBaleadaMusic]

What if one object was in front of the other and they were doing this weird spin but you were detecting two spins as one and it looked all weird

[@perpetualbystander4516]

Last time I was this early my gf yelled at me and called me selfish. 😄

[@dismo021]

Plot twist: he's imaginary

[@TooSlowTube]

Start advertising for a replacement. She sounds awful.

[@JozefBacaPracovny]

Hi, Anton! I think that it is a rare pulsar with a strong 6.5 hours precession movement. Jozef

[@fgadenz]

Viger is coming.

[@attilarivera]

who or what is Viger? 🤔

[@bct8881]

@@attilarivera 🖖🥸

[@enverse244]

@@attilariveraread up on your starfleet history

[@The_TinesJathian]

Vger? from star trek?

[@quincunx1443]

Vger

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

Could the nuclear reaction in a star pulsate for a while as it burns through one element and starts burning another? It has to collapse to initiate the next reaction, which creates a surge that might throw a shockwave outward, triggering a wave of fusion that dies out and recurs for a while

[@shaunsandow2073]

Aliens obviously

[@jamesbell7696]

Is it possible that rotation speed is a less important factor than we thought? Could some of the energy be fed to it externally and not produced internally?

[@caribbeanman3379]

If there is a strong enough gravitational field nearby, could that not cause some time dilation that would result in the pulse rate seeming very slow from our perspective?

[@MilushevGeorgi]

Glad to see you wonderful Anton

[@Rechnerstrom]

Could this be caused by precession of the rotational axis of a neutron star? When the magnetic axis is extremely good aligned with the rotational axis.