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Incredible coincidence: Fast radio burst detected after gravitational wave event
(ORDO NEWS) — From time to time our detectors here on Earth get a strange signal from outer space. These signals, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are very short, only milliseconds long, and are only detectable in the radio spectrum. However, in those milliseconds and at these wavelengths, they can emit as much energy as 500 million suns, and most of them have never been detected again. What they…
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Newly discovered fast radio burst 190520 exhibits strange behavior
(ORDO NEWS) — The recently discovered Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 190520 exhibits a unique behavior compared to other FRBs discovered so far. As soon as it begins to seem that there is some kind of pattern in the behavior of the BRV 190520, suddenly a strange outlier appears, which forces us to reevaluate everything that has been studied about it before. Professor Sarah Burke-Spolaor and graduate student Kshitij Aggarwal, both…
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A second fast radio burst from the same celestial body has been registered. What if it’s aliens
(ORDO NEWS) — With the help of two large radio telescopes, scientists for the first time were able to detect a second fast radio burst coming from the same object. All previously detected fast radio bursts came from different celestial bodies. There is a hypothesis that these most powerful radio signals are messages from alien civilizations. And the second signal from one source in a sense confirms this hypothesis. These…
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Newly discovered fast radio burst challenges scientists
(ORDO NEWS) — A newly discovered fast radio burst has unique properties that give astronomers important clues about what might be causing these mysterious astronomical phenomena themselves. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely bright pulses of radio waves coming from distant galaxies. In one millisecond, they release as much energy as the Sun releases in many days. Researchers at West Virginia University discovered the first DFS in 2007. Over the…
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Strange radio burst raises new questions
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have discovered only the second example of a highly active, repetitive fast radio burst (FRB) with a compact source of weaker but constant radio emission between bursts. First discovered in 2019, scientists used the National Science Foundation’s Carl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and other telescopes to study the object. The object, named BRV 190520, was discovered by the 500m Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST)…
