Sentences with phrase «strong radio bursts»

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).

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

Eatough's team realised that the strong bursts of radio waves emitted by the pulsar would be rotated by the black hole's magnetic field, and so could be used to measure the strength of the field.

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.

The amount of twisting observed in FRB 121102's radio bursts is among the largest ever measured in a radio source, leading the researchers to conclude that the bursts are passing through an extraordinarily strong magnetic field in a dense plasma.

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.

For the first time, astronomers pinpointed the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), which is a phenomena where a very strong burst of radio emission occurs.