Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Offers a Way to Weigh the Universe
In June 2022, a radio telescope in Western Australia detected a fleeting radio signal from a galaxy over 10 billion light-years from Earth. Now, a team of astronomers that studied…
A Mysterious Object in Deep Space Has Blinked Every 22 Minutes for Over 30 Years
An intensely magnetic neutron star roughly 15,000 light-years from Earth is stumping astronomers with its ultra long periods, unleashing radio waves into the cosmos every 22 minutes. Inspiration Behind Immortal…
Strange radio burst discovered in Milky Way for first time, source identified
One of the more mysterious phenomena discovered in space are fast radio bursts, or FRBs. Now, an FRB has been discovered in our own galaxy for the first time.