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New fast radio burst detector is reshaping our understanding of the universe
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most puzzling astronomical phenomena. These brief yet intense bursts of radio waves, ...
Fast Radio Bursts Explained? Scientists Zero In on Their Mysterious Origins
A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
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Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours
Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...
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Source of Mystery Radio Signal Traced to Clash of Magnetic Titans
Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...
Mysterious radio signals are coming from ‘unprecedented’ part of space, scientists say
Scientists believe the two stars – a red dwarf and a white dwarf – are in orbit around each other so tightly that their magnetic fields interact with each other. When they bump together, every two ...
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Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Something else had to be instigating it. The pulses differed from fast radio bursts, which are incredibly bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves. Almost all FRBs originate from outside ...