Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but ...
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A team of researchers at MIT has now pinpointed the origins of one such burst, FRB 20221022A. The findings, published in Nature, shed light on these cosmic phenomena. The researchers used a unique ...
Astronomers finally discovered the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs)–mysterious and powerful bursts from outer space first ...
In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf ...
An international team of scientists has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs)—enigmatic, ...
The pattern is interpreted as evidence that the FRB emission site is rotating - a characteristic previously observed in pulsars, which are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars. To see a ...
This special property was seen as evidence that the FRB emission site was rotating — a characteristic of highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars called pulsars. 2025’s Must-See Astronomical ...