Sentences with phrase «powerful radio bursts»

For a decade, astronomers have puzzled over ephemeral but incredibly powerful radio bursts from space.

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Astronomers call these powerful flashes Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

Astronomers are racing to figure out what causes powerful bursts of radio light in the distant cosmos

«The biggest mystery around fast radio bursts is how such powerful and short - duration bursts are emitted,» says astronomer Daniele Michilli of the University of Amsterdam.

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.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

A rapid and powerful burst of radio waves is found through an analysis of archival pulsar data, suggestive of a new class of radio bursts, perhaps from a supernova.

But the authors also speculate that the twisting of the radio bursts could be explained if FRB 121102 is located in a powerful nebula (an interstellar cloud of gas and dust) or amid the remains of a dead star.

Astronomers at Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory have detected a powerful new bursting radio source whose unique properties suggest the discovery of a new class of astronomical objects.

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The sun popped off a powerful solar flare this week, its biggest burst in 2015 and one that temporarily knocked out radio communications in the Pacific region, according to NASA.