The object was discovered using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. “The object turned on very rapidly within a few days and shows no sign of decaying in brightness over the first few months of its existence. “The new object, which appeared in May 2009, has left us scratching our heads – we’ve never seen anything quite like this before,” said Dr Muxlow. This “superluminal” motion occurs usually in high-speed jets of material bursting out by black holes. But its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light. “We don’t know what it is,” says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK. An unknown object in galaxy M82 12 million light-years away is sending out radio waves.
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