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 ...

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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.

Fast radio bursts — fleeting blasts of energy that are brighter than entire galaxies — remain mysterious. Here's what we know (and don't know) about FRBs. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The humble Hubble Space Telescope has been instrumental in observing something remarkable: the possible and highly unusual birthplace of the most distant fast radio burst (FRB), extremely powerful and ...

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 ...

With discoveries in cosmology so often couched in mind-boggling timeframes reaching millions and billions of years into the past, it’s jarring to think of scientists in the field feting a millisecond ...

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Mysterious radio signals from space have been known to repeat, but for the first time, researchers have noticed a pattern in a series of bursts coming from a single source half a billion light-years ...