Breakthrough Listen project observes 15
fast radio bursts coming from dwarf galaxy 3 billion light - years away.
«It looks like
the fast radio burst came out to play today,» Casey Law, the researcher monitoring the VLA in real time, wrote in an email to the rest of the team.
Not exact matches
OXON HILL, Md. —
Fast radio bursts could
come from a turbulent home.
Questions remain about whether all
fast radio bursts, including the ones that don't repeat,
come from such exciting neighborhoods.
Fast radio bursts, which flash for just a few milliseconds, created a stir among astronomers because they seemed to be
coming from outside our galaxy, which means they would have to be very powerful to be seen from Earth, and because none of those first observed were ever seen again.
Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some
fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of
radio waves that
come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.
The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the
fast radio bursts may
come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star — a magnetar — in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.
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.
Currently my work focuses on an exciting new type of object called
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- powerful bursts of radio light coming from outside our Ga
Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- powerful bursts of radio light coming from outside our G
Bursts (FRBs)-- powerful
bursts of radio light coming from outside our G
bursts of
radio light coming from outside our Ga
radio light
coming from outside our Galaxy!
Fast Radio Bursts or FRBs in outer space may be
coming from alien space probes navigating or trying to signal Earth.