14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
... the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, astronomers detected 21 emitted bursts from FRB 121102 alone in the space of an hour. Bursts from FRB 121102 originate from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years from Earth, but what is causing...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
.... With little else to go on, that idea remained largely unchanged, until November 2012, when one particular burst – FRB 121102 – was seen to repeat four years later. To explain this behaviour, some scientists thought these bursts might...
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...
