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More than a decade ago, astronomers at the Australian Parkes Observatory received high-powered, electromagnetic pulses of unknown origin, which prompted entire research teams to try to investigate their nature.Although astronomers picked up many during this period, no one has yet been able to explain their nature.
But that confusion seems to stop soon.In a new attempt to understand its nature, a joint research team from the universities of Michigan and Charleston suggests that the strange pattern of Fast Radio Bursts can be interpreted to run faster than the speed of light.
Greater than the speed of light
The findings, released on September 30 in the Astrophysical Journal, say that these pulses repeat themselves in such a way that light curves appear to travel back in time, and this can only happen in conditions beyond Where the waves of those pulses are the speed of light.
According to the new study, this does not mean breaking the notion of relativity theory, which says that the fastest thing in the universe is the speed of light in a vacuum, which is about three hundred thousand kilometers per second, because the speed of light in a medium other than vacuum falls below that value.
If, for example, an electron passes through a beam of light in an aqueous medium, the electron will not be affected by water, passing through its usual speed of close to 300,000 kilometers per second, while the light itself decreases to about 225,000 kilometers per second. The electron exceeds the speed of light (in water).
Unknown impulses
This type of phenomena, called the Shrinkov Effect, relative to Russian physicist Pavel Shrinkov, has several features, for example, that it causes blue-colored radiation emitted when a particle exceeds the velocity barrier of light within the medium.
According to the new study, this pattern can be detected in fast-paced radio pulses of unknown origin, which means that the waves move, within the medium of the radio pulse itself, more quickly than light, which gives this effect on the curves of light, which is reflected in the direction of time.
Scientists believe that rapid radio pulses are caused by the collision of two neutron stars, or possibly because a huge star collided with a black hole.A massive radioactive jets are released when the black hole is pulled out of the star's material.However, at the time of writing these words, the nature of those pulses is still not understood.