Fast radio bursts

Astronomers are getting closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts

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Fast radio bursts flash in the sky above Earth. | Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of radio waves originating from outside the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second as it takes the Sun three … Read more