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«A repeating fast radio burst from an extreme environment: Extragalactic source of radio - wave flashes resides in a powerfully magnetized astrophysical region.»

The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.

MYSTERIOUS radio bursts from the distant cosmos are revealing their true nature.

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

Five new fast radio bursts from the HTRU high - latitude survey at Parkes: first evidence of two - component bursts.

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MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

A class of odd radio bursts first detected by the Parkes telescope years ago came from an advanced civilization — if advanced means people on Earth so eager for a microwaved meal they open the oven before the beep.

And the gamma - ray emission from FRB 131104 outshines its radio emissions by more than a billion times, dramatically raising estimates of the burst's energy requirements and suggesting severe consequences for the burst's surroundings and host galaxy.

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

TWISTS AND TURNS The twisted waves from a distant fast radio burst suggest the burst originates from a neighborhood with a strong magnetic field.

An unknown object that appears close to an expanding cloud of matter from a supernova (top) spat out five strong radio bursts in 2002 (bottom).

OXON HILL, Md. — Fast radio bursts could come from a turbulent home.

Radio telescopes have picked up intense bursts of low - frequency static from a mysterious source that may lie hidden near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

The team measured the radio waves from 16 distinct bursts over three two - hour observational runs spanning several months.

Questions remain about whether all fast radio bursts, including the ones that don't repeat, come from such exciting neighborhoods.

The change in the burst's brightness appears to be exactly the same at radio and optical frequencies; this can happen, say Garnavich and his collaborators Avi Loeb and Kris Stanek from the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, only if part of the expanding ring passed behind a star located exactly between Earth and the ring itself.

«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.»

Mega bursts of radio waves that seem to come from a galaxy far, far away have a weird pattern — here's what you need to know

Combined with the fact that bursts seem to evolve from energetic gamma rays to X-rays to visible light, which means they cool off over time, the radio data supported the idea that they are huge fireballs, expanding at near - light - speed and cooling as they go.

An armada of space observatories measured gamma rays from the burst, while radio telescopes on Earth helped pinpoint the source of the activity.

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.

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One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

This detection follows 11 previously recorded outbursts of radio waves from the same location, the only known repeater in a class of enigmatic eruptions known as fast radio bursts.

The continuing barrage from this repeating source, roughly 3 billion light - years away in the constellation Auriga, implies that whatever is causing some radio bursts is not a one - time destructive

Anthony Readhead of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory at Caltech and colleagues caught two small, hot bursts traveling away from a bright galaxy called J1415 +1320 at near the speed of light.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

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.

A team studying data from a recent sky survey has spotted a huge burst of radio waves that came and went in the blink of an eye and has not returned since.

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.

New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source's environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.

Breakthrough Listen allotted tens of hours of observational time on the Green Bank Telescope to recording radio emissions from FRB 121102, and last August 26 detected 15 bursts over a relatively short period of five hours.

Because radio signals travel faster than particles, the completed e-CALLISTO can also work as an early - warning system for radio bursts, alerting space mission control centres to upcoming disturbances caused by coronal mass ejections from the Sun.

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.

The nearly 100 percent polarization of the radio bursts is unusual, and has only been seen in radio emissions from the extreme magnetic environments around massive black holes, such as those at the centers of galaxies.

Banking that she'd spot a «live» burst, Petroff had an international team poised to make rapid follow - up observations, at wavelengths from radio to X-rays.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

These fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but unknown sources.

In addition to detecting the bright bursts from FRB 121102, the VLA observations also revealed an ongoing, persistent source of weaker radio emission in the same region.

Radar pulses (short bursts of radio - frequency energy) emitted from a ground - based transmitter are reflected by a meteor's trail.

One fun bit of synchronicity: I met a radio astronomer from the Netherlands, and she uses Breakthrough Listen data to search for fast radio bursts, or FRBs.

They are also developing (with Dr. Kent Wood of NRL) a model that attempts to account for the radio bursts as a new type of outburst from a class of sources known as «magnetars.»

They also plan to keep monitoring the steady radio emission from the vicinity of the Spitler burst to see if its properties change in time, as expected based on that theory.

The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs, were first detected in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

And, according to Laura Spitler, namesake of the Spitler burst and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in Bonn, Germany, magnetars generally form from stellar explosions called Type - I superluminous supernovas.

A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense fireball resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the first detection of radio emission from a cosmic gamma - ray burst.