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15 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy

posted by martyb on Saturday September 02 2017, @04:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Bzzt-Bzzt dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/30/distant-galaxy-sends-out-15-high-energy-radio-bursts/

Breakthrough Listen, an initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, has detected 15 brief but powerful radio pulses emanating from a mysterious and repeating source – FRB 121102 – far across the universe.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but largely unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 150 high-energy bursts have been observed coming from the object, which was identified last year as a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

Also at: Universe Today, phys.org, and Newsweek,.

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  • (Score: 2) by chewbacon on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:49PM (1 child)

    by chewbacon (1032) on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:49PM (#563013)

    Probably doing a line of coke off a stripper's back. He just strikes me as that type of a fun guy.

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  • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:43PM

    by arulatas (3600) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:43PM (#563749)

    So now he is a mushroom?

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