Radio signal from God heard from deep space
Pastor Dale Morgan
Radio signal from God heard from deep space*
By Sam Cardwell
September 28, 2007 04:50am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
A TEAM of American astronomers has detected a huge burst of radio energy
from deep space while using the Parkes radio telescope in NSW.
The huge burst of energy, which has startled scientists with its
strength, is thought to have originated over 500 mega-parsecs or
one-and-a-half billion light years from earth.
Professor Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University in Melbourne said that
the burst was unusual as this kind of activity was usually very faint at
such extreme distances.
“Normally the kind of cosmic activity we're looking for at this distance
would be very faint but this was so bright that it saturated the
equipment,” he said in a statement.
The burst of energy, which lasted for only five milliseconds, was so
strong that when it was first detected six years ago it was dismissed as
man-made interference.
The significance of the burst was discovered by David Narkevik, an
undergraduate from West Viginia University, when he re-analysed the
six-year-old data collected at Parkes.
Lead researcher Assistant Professor Duncan Lorimer from West Virginia
University said that the burst may have been a result of two stars
colliding or the death of a black hole.
“The burst may have been produced by an exotic event such as the
collision of two neutron stars or be the last gasp of a black hole as it
evaporates completely,” he said.
The amount of energy thrown out by the burst was 10exp33 joules or the
equivalent to the amount of energy that around 185.3 billion average
Australian homes would use in a year.
The full report of the discovery will be available today in the online
journal Science Express.