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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are some of the most energetic events in the universe and we know very little about their origin. So far we have only have detected about two dozen FRBs but this might soon c…
In February of 2015, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia identified some fast radio bursts (FRB) that have captivated astrophysicists ever since. Named “cosmic whistles,” an FRB is a rapid flash …
Fast radio bursts are split-second intergalactic blips of radio waves we’ve detected over the last decade. You’d think that if we pointed our telescopes and other space cameras in the direction these…
For the first time, scientists have successfully traced mysterious “fast radio bursts” (FRBs), which have been speculated to be signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, to a galaxy six billion l…
By Bryan Nelson www.mnn.com 12-4-15 New data about mysterious mathematical signals from deep space called 'fast radio bursts' offer new clues about their origin. For about the last deca…
