Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought could produce such a signal.

In a nutshell Astronomers have discovered repeated radio burst signals coming from an unprecedented location – 40,000 light-years away from the center of an ancient, inactive galaxy located 2 billion ...

Unusual detection bolsters evidence that the mysterious signals can be caused by different astrophysical events.

FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies. In just thousandths of a ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in ...

Star turn: Kenzie Nimmo presenting this work at a recent conference. (Courtesy: K Nimmo) The exact origins of cosmic phenomena known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) are not fully understood, but ...

Prior to the discovery of FRBs, the most powerful bursts observed in the Milky Way were produced by neutron stars, which are visible from up to 100,000 light-years away. However, according to new ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are puzzling phenomena because ... to originate in a dead galaxy that is no longer producing new stars, according to a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal ...

these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years. The recent burst ...

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright ... Zooming in to this small region around a star from 200 million light-years away is “like being able to measure the width of a DNA ...