Sentences with phrase «known repeating burst»
The first and only known repeating burst, named FRB 121102, was discovered in the constellation Auriga in November of 2012 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and has recurred numerous times.
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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.
The discovery was «both amazing and terrifying,» Chatterjee said — amazing, because «everyone knew that FRBs don't repeat,» and terrifying because of the gargantuan energy required to produce even one of these bursts.