The mysterious radio burst arrives from a galaxy nearly 500 million light-years away and follows a strange repeating cycle that researchers say behaves almost like clockwork.

Astronomers recorded a strong challenging FRB network burst that came from outer space in February 2024. The detection of FRB 20240209A disproved earlier ideas about the source of these intense radio ...

Orbits of the G objects at the center of our galaxy, with the supermassive black hole indicated with a white cross. Stars, gas and dust are in the background. Credit - Anna Ciurlo, Tuan Do/UCLA ...

Scientists have discovered that mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (FRBs) may be created when asteroids slam into ultradense extreme dead stars called neutron stars. Such a collision ...

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An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to explain fast radio bursts! When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

What is the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and what can this teach us about the galaxies where they reside? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief flashes of radio waves that are energetic enough to be observed from Earth — even when they come from far-flung galaxies 1. Although the source of these bursts is ...

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With discoveries in cosmology so often couched in mind-boggling timeframes reaching millions and billions of years into the past, it’s jarring to think of scientists in the field feting a millisecond ...