US Edition
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Perfectly Spherical Object in Deep Space
- Astronomers led by Miroslav Filipović detected a nearly perfectly spherical object named Teleios in the Milky Way using the ASKAP radio telescope in 2025.
- The team found Teleios only through radio emissions and identified it as an unusual supernova remnant but could not conclusively determine its exact distance or type due to conflicting scenarios.
- Researchers proposed three distance-based models placing Teleios between 3,262 and 25,114 light-years away, with corresponding age estimates ranging from less than 1,000 years to over 10,000 years.
- The study emphasizes Teleios’s striking circular shape with symmetry exceeding 95%, positioning it among the most perfectly round supernova remnants observed in the Milky Way, despite a surprising lack of expected X-ray signals.
- The researchers deem a Type Ia supernova origin most likely but emphasize that all proposed scenarios face challenges and call for new high-resolution observations to clarify Teleios’s true nature.
22 Articles
22 Articles
Astronomers Found a Suspiciously Round Object in Our Galaxy
Things always feel at least a little suspicious when they’re too perfect. When something is too correct, it starts to feel unnatural. Like it was manufactured. This is not only true in life on Earth, but with life in space, as a team of astronomers recently found a supernova out there in the vastness of space that is very round. Like, suspiciously round. Discovered by astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Teleios …
Perfectly spherical supernova is weirding us out
Dubbed Teleios, the unusually symmetrical space object is puzzling astronomers with its near-perfect shape and mysterious origin. The universe is a chaotic place filled with exploding stars, material falling into black holes, and rogue planets wandering off on their own. All that chaos makes astronomers suspicious when they glimpse a hint of perfection in the cosmos, like a bubble of material left over from the death of a star that appears to be…
Astronomers spy puzzlingly 'perfect' cosmic orb with unknown size and location
New radio images reveal an unusually faint and symmetrical supernova remnant, nicknamed Telios, lurking just below the galactic plane of the Milky Way. However, they cannot tell exactly where it is, how big it is or how it formed.
Astronomers Baffled by a Suspicious, Perfectly Round Sphere in Our Galaxy
Today, in questions you didn't know you needed the answer to: Is there such a thing as a perfect ball? And if there were, would it contain the secrets of the universe? To wit, a spherical object lurking in our galaxy is so perfectly round that astronomers can't explain how it was formed. Dubbed "Teleios" after the Greek word for "perfect," the object is what's known as a supernova remnant (SNR), a glowing cloud of hot gases and other material le…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 55% of the sources are Center
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
Ownership
To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage
