Mysterious 'repeater' fast radio burst detected from faraway galaxy
UPI reports: "Canada's CHIME telescope has detected 13 new fast radio bursts, or
FRBs, including a mysterious "repeater" signal of six bursts from the
single source, a galaxy located 1.5 billion light-years from Earth.
[...] Several dozen FRBs have been recorded over the last decade, but
CHIME's observations mark just the second time a repeating signal has
been documented."
Comment: From what I gather, the significance of this is that these radio bursts are not random but repeat, therefore scientists are excited to get the bottom of the mystery. Astronomers have observed many cosmic events (collisions, explosions, implosions, etc.) that generate radio, x-ray and gamma-ray bursts that we can observe at random intervals but events that repeat are unusual.
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