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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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15 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @01:00AM (1 child)
Doesn't matter. They are long gone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:37AM
Maybe it does matter.
If they beamed out details about their technology, it could improve our own, even if they stopped existing millions of years ago.