Since 2007, astronomers have been working to unravel the mystery of brief, intense flashes of radio waves called fast radio bursts, or FRBs. In the ensuing decade and a half, they have surmised that ...

Astronomers announced this weekend that they've detected a mysterious fast radio burst coming from a dwarf galaxy three billion light-years away. The burst — known as an FRB — appears to be ...

Where do fast radio bursts (FRBs) come from and how do they form? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

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Space Mysteries: Astronomers are closer than they've ever been to confirming the origins of fast radio bursts thanks to one detected in our galaxy for the first time. When you purchase through links ...

Investigating the enigmatic origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has taken a surprising turn. These millisecond-long radio ...

We detected ten additional bursts from FRB 121102 in these observations. The burst properties, and those of the initial FRB 121102 burst, are listed in Table 1. The burst intensities are shown in Fig.

The blast was the 'most powerful radio burst' the Milky Way has ever seen, and could solve a decade-old mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Astronomers over the years have picked up dozens of "fast radio bursts" (FRBs) — mysterious radio signals detected from an unknown part of the cosmos. But for only the second time, they have now found ...