«The discovery of a repeating FRB has not only narrowed down the possible astrophysical origins of FRBs,» says lead author Laura Spitler of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, «but we also have a better shot at unraveling their nature by being able to
observe more bursts from this source.»
Not exact matches
Little has changed since Arnold Bennett
observed in 1912: «The impression of the multitude streaming from that gap in the wooden wall was like nothing
more than the impression of a
burst main which only the emptying of the reservoir will assuage.
The impact of the new method using Fast Radio
Bursts is expected to increase significantly as more of the bursts are observed, and if their origin can be established more f
Bursts is expected to increase significantly as
more of the
bursts are observed, and if their origin can be established more f
bursts are
observed, and if their origin can be established
more firmly.
«The joke is there are far
more theories than there are
observed bursts,» said coauthor Jason Hessels of the University of Amsterdam in a news conference January 10.
Schaefer realized that only a gamma - ray
burst, the most powerful type of explosion ever
observed, is bright enough to give us information about conditions near the edge of the visible universe,
more than 13 billion light - years away.
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.