Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space — a flash that lasts only an instant, but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun does in a few years. The origin of these “fast radio bursts” is one of the greatest mysteries that astronomers are searching ...
Fast radio bursts — intense, milliseconds-long flashes of radio energy from outer space — have puzzled astronomers since they were first spotted in 2007. A single burst can emit as much energy in its brief life as the Sun does in a few days. The great majority of the short-lived pulses originate outside our Milky ...
We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs. Two colliding neutron stars — each the super-dense core of an exploded star — produced a burst of gravitational waves when they merged into a “supramassive” ...
New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the McGill Space Institute and McGill University Department of Physics, strongly suggest that magnetars — a type of neutron star believed to have an extremely powerful magnetic field — could be the source of some fast radio bursts (FRBs). Though much research has been done to explain ...
Scientists have often been baffled by Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), radio signals that are just milliseconds in length that blip all over the galaxy. Interestingly, these FRBs even outshine radio pulsars, even though they are million times farther away than the latter. Dozens of theories have been proposed to explain the phenomenon, including being triggered ...
An object 500 million light-years away from Earth has been sending signals once every 16 days, baffling scientists. Such signals, called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), have been detected before. In fact, scientists already know about 100 types of FRBs. But what makes this specific FRB special is that it is the only one to have ...
Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of “fast radio bursts” — powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team’s discoveries include the closest and brightest fast radio bursts ever detected. Fast radio bursts come from all over the sky and last for just ...
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