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, ...
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Boost for compact fast radio bursts
New results from the CHIME telescope support the hypothesis that fast radio bursts originate in close proximity to the ...
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This dead star is still sending us radio signals
Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...
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Deep space radio burst reaches Earth after an 8 billion year journey
A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...
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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 ...
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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 our ...
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This dead star is still sending us radio signals
Then there are fast radio bursts (FRBs), strange, milliseconds-long signals also thought to come from neutron stars — perhaps acting with companions of their own. “More speculatively ...