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 this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others seem to burst once and go silent. You can produce this sort of sudden surge of ...

The agent of one of Rangers' unsettled stars has explained why his client didn't move in the transfer window despite ...