But now, a rare burst has provided indications that FRBs likely originate near the star and that they share a feature with the emissions of pulsars, another subtype of neutron star.
"In these environments of neutron stars, the magnetic fields are really at the limits of what the universe can produce." ...
Fast radio bursts originate near neutron stars, revealing their magnetically chaotic environments and scintillation patterns.
Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park is an enormous volcanic crater hundreds of thousands of years old. Researchers have ...
A mystery " alien " signal from outer space has been tracked down to its source. First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, ...
Astronomy has been puzzling over fast radio bursts for years. Now such a radio burst has been traced back to its origin with ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discovered the origins of a fast radio burst in outer space called FRB 20221022A.
Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron ...
When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists ...
By analyzing the "twinkling" of a specific burst, researchers pinpointed its origin to a region incredibly close to a neutron ...
Researchers have estimated that FRB 20221022A exploded from a region that is at most 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) away ...