NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — An international team of researchers has detected a distant burst of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond, the most distant “fast radio burst” (FRB) ever detected, the European Southern Observatory said.
The source was discovered by the Chile- based Very Large Telescope (VLT) in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach Earth.
“In addition, this ‘fast radio burst’ is one of the most energetic on record: in a tiny fraction of a second, it emitted energy equivalent to 30 years of total radiation from our Sun,” the Germany-based observatory said.
As noted, the flare, called FRB 20220610A, was discovered in June last year using the ASKAP radio telescope in Australia and broke the previous range record by 50%.
“Fast radio bursts” in modern astrophysics are single radio pulses of a few milliseconds of unknown nature recorded by radio telescopes. A fast radio burst was discovered for the first time and completely by accident in February 2007.
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