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Deep space radio burst is detected from a 'dead galaxy,' baffling scientists
Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...
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Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.
Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly ...
Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers
Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...
Minnesota Daily24d
Research superstars: UMN receives funding to create super fast telescope
received a $1 million grant in September 2021 from the National Science Foundation to construct a telescope that can pinpoint supernovae and other astronomical events within two-seconds of detection ...
James Webb Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come into focus
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
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Scientists pin down the origins of a fast radio burst
Detections of fast radio bursts have ramped up in recent years, due to the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). The radio telescope array comprises four large, stationary ...