An artist's impression shows three bright red flashes depicting fast
radio bursts far beyond the Milky Way.
Not exact matches
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
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.
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.
With a signal - to - noise ratio of 411, that event was the brightest fast
radio burst detected so
far by quite a wide margin.
Based on the number of FRBs that have been found in
radio surveys so
far, we believe that up to 5,000 FRB
bursts happen over the whole sky every day!