A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, revealing a new type of stellar object that could revolutionize their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.

The revelation began in March 2018 when Curtin University’s doctoral student, Tyrone O’Doherty, first noticed a spinning celestial space object.

This enigmatic entity emitted massive bursts of energy and radiated radiation at a remarkable frequency of three times per hour, CNN reported.

During those moments, it astonishingly became the brightest source of radio waves observable from Earth through radio telescopes, exhibiting characteristics akin to that of a celestial lighthouse.

At first, researchers speculated that this phenomenon might be linked to a remnant of a collapsed star, either a dense neutron star or a deceased white dwarf star, with a potent magnetic field.

However, the possibility of it being an entirely distinct and unexplored object also existed.

Following the publication of a study detailing their observation in January 2022, O’Doherty, along with a team of astronomers from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Australia, embarked on a quest to search for another instance of this remarkable celestial object.

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