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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.

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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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:21AM (#563075)

    Except, little know fact, Ethanol_fueled is a woman. This is what happens when extra-stellar species arrive, and cannot figure out the local reproductive strategies. Sad thing, Eth will not realize this until well after his fleshlight gives out. So sad. But at least it stops with him. Or, um, her.