They found that about 63 percent of
the background radio emission comes from galaxies with gorging black holes at their cores and the remaining 37 percent comes from galaxies that are rapidly forming stars.
«Advancing technology has revealed more and more of the Universe to us over the past few decades, and our study shows individual objects that account for about 96 percent of
the background radio emission coming from the distant Universe,» Condon said.
Not exact matches
At
radio frequencies greater than 10 gigahertz the
radio emission matched that of the microwave
background, but at lower frequencies it was several times stronger.
«The sensitivity and resolution of the VLA, following its decade - long upgrade, made it possible to identify the specific objects responsible for nearly all of the
radio background emission coming from beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy,» said Jim Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (N
radio background emission coming from beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy,» said Jim Condon, of the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory (N
Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
This story is still just hypothetical, but astrophysicists point to a piece of supporting evidence: The FRBs are coming from the same vicinity as a steady source of
radio emission — possibly the
background signal from the expanding debris cloud that surrounds the young magnetar.