The magnetar that's baffling scientists is called XTE J1810-197.
"We report here on new high-cadence radio observations of the magnetar XTE J1810–197 recorded shortly after an X-ray outburst," one of the studies explains.
Both studies found a strange wobble effect occurring in the signals.
Neither study reveals what was causing the unusual behavior.
Patrick Weltevrede, an astrophysicist at the University of Manchester, worked on both studies.
"Our findings demonstrate that exotic physical processes are involved in the production of the radio waves we can detect with sensitive radio telescopes.
"Moreover, we learned that magnetars are ultra-strong magnets in space which spin in complicated ways," he said.
"It was crucial to keep observing the magnetar with radio telescopes even when it was switched off, so we were able to catch it directly after the radio outburst.
"This is the first time we have had data sampled densely enough at just the right time to be able to resolve this precession and its damping, made possible through many years of dedicated monitoring of this source with large radio telescopes, including the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank," said researchers Dr Lina Levin Preston, also from The University of Manchester.
Milky Way Facts
Here's some things you might not have known about our galaxy...
The Milky Way is almost as old as the Universe itself with recent estimates suggesting that the Universe is around 13.7 or 13.8billion years old and the Milky Way is thought to be about 13.6billion years old
The Milky Way is disk-shaped and measures about 120,000 light-years across
It has a supermassive black hole in the middle called Sagittarius A*
The Milky Way contains over 200 billion stars
It is thought to have an invisible halo made of dark matter
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