WASHINGTON: In an exceptional discovery, a team of astronomers have identified a galaxy with a heartbeat and noticed thousands of stellar pulses in it.
Previously, it was believed that stars always remain stable and unchanged but, now, the new discovery suggests that stars are not only born but they also die and they also have heartbeat. In fact, they undergo significant transformation throughout their life especially in the ending years.
For the purpose of the study, the researchers and astronomers at the Universities of Harvard and Yale examined a galaxy located 53 million light-years away from Earth known as M87, reported TechTimes.
“We realized that these stars are so bright and their pulsations so strong that they are difficult to hide, “said Charlie Conroy, an assistant professor at Harvard, who led the research.
“We decided to see if the pulsations of these stars could be detected even if we could not separate their light from the sea of unchanging stars that are their neighbors.”
They looked at a series of images from the galaxy M87, located in the constellation Virgo, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over the course of three months.
