Mexican astrophysicist Luis Rodríguez said that after the discovery of the JuMBOs, he and his team at the National Autonomous University of Mexico wanted to see if these unusual objects were giving off radio waves. So they combed through the archives of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory and found that one of the duos - named JuMBO 24 - was indeed giving off a signal.
To make the situation all the more peculiar, Rodríguez told the website that the radio emissions seemingly associated with JuMBO 24 aren't the kind of twisting spiral waves that planets usually give off as an "unambiguous indicator" of their magnetic fields. Instead, the waves were strong but steady, which itself is odd because radio waves from other known types of objects, be they brown dwarves, planets, or pulsars, are generally far more variable.
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