14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
...not just because it helps us understand the dynamic behavior of FRBs in more detail," remarked Siemion, "but also because of...signals from extraterrestrial technologies.” It is not just FRBs that are being identified and flagged for further examination...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... the time of flight of the photon, and hence the path length. In this sense, FRBs represent cosmic rulers. Mysteries surrounding FRBs The FRB pulses themselves have so far only been observed in the radio portion of the electromagnetic...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
...largely unchanged, until November 2012, when one particular burst – FRB 121102 – was seen to repeat four years later. To ...UK, now have a new piece of evidence to fit to the FRB puzzle. Using the 32 bursts discovered during their four-year observing ...
29 May 2020
Cosmic bursts solve Universe's 'missing matter' problem
...as dispersion and it is incredibly small. But by the time an FRB has travelled millions or billions of light-years to reach Earth, ...determine what the composition of the matter is that the FRB’s passed through. Most theories point to it being atomic ...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... high energy, however their sporadic nature was something of a conundrum. Although there are now 18 known FRBs, one FRB named FRB 121102, discovered in November 2012 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has recurred numerous times. By switching...
04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
...giant stars that have gone supernova, were the source of FRBs. Then, highly magnetised young neutron stars known as magnetars ...re-checked their own data to confirm the discovery of FRB 200428. The announcement was significant because until now, there...
