Astronomers have discovered a mysterious intergalactic ring.

     Perhaps the new object belongs to the recently discovered class of strange radio rings, but scientists have reason to doubt this. Firstly, it does not fit in size, and secondly, it is located in an unusual place - between the Milky Way and a neighboring galaxy. Most likely, astronomers have discovered something completely new.

    Object J0624-6948 was discovered using the Australian ASCAP radio telescope, and at first astronomers mistook it for another strange radio ring (ORC, SRK), a recently discovered class of cosmic anomalies. These rings emitting radio waves cannot yet be explained by science, although several hypotheses have already been put forward.

    However, the new ring has several characteristics that distinguish it from other SRKs. Usually there is an entire galaxy at their center, but this object is located in intergalactic space. In addition, it is more than three times larger than most SRKs, and its spectral index in the radio band is much flatter. All this indicates that we are talking about a new type of objects, writes New Atlas.

    There is an assumption that J0624-6948 is the remnants of an unusual supernova, after the death of which a rarefied cloud arose. If so, this is the first such object outside the galaxy, although it may have originally originated on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. In this case, the remnants of the supernova should be between 2200 and 7100 years old.

    Another possible explanation is that the cloud could be the result of a powerful flash on a star, not far from the Milky Way, or it could be some unusually large strange radio ring. After all, astronomers have only observed five SRKs so far, and there's still a lot we don't know about these objects.

    A strange signal from the center of our galaxy was spotted by astronomers recently. The signature of the radio signal does not match any celestial object known to science. In the active state, the duration of the flashes reaches a minute, and they are repeated every 18 minutes. Based on everything we know, this was considered impossible.