Sentences with phrase «about fast radio bursts»
The more radio astronomers learn about fast radio bursts (FRBs), the more confused they get.
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Until now, only about a dozen Fast Radio Bursts have been detected on Earth.
Questions remain about whether all fast radio bursts, including the ones that don't repeat, come from such exciting neighborhoods.
While Law has his pet hypothesis about the origin of fast radio bursts — a magnetar surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar — there are other possibilities.
Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.
Other radio astronomers are working to answer myriad questions about dark matter, fast radio bursts, and much more.