Jan 21, 2025 by News Staff

The source of the newly-detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy, which is located 2 billion...

Dec 21, 2023 by News Staff

FRB 20220912A is a repeating fast radio burst that was discovered in 2022 and remained highly active for several months. Using the recently refurbished...

Oct 12, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fast radio bursts are extragalactic transient phenomena that shine in radio wavelengths for short durations lasting only 1-10 milliseconds. Some sources...

May 12, 2023 by News Staff

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief flashes of radio waves from distant galaxies that are probably emitted by neutron stars. Some FRBs repeat, which enables...

Apr 26, 2023 by News Staff

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are microsecond-millisecond flashes of radio waves that are detectable over extragalactic distances; some FRB sources repeat....

Jul 13, 2022 by News Staff

A fast radio burst (FRB) dubbed FRB 20191221A persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB; within this window, astronomers...

Jun 8, 2022 by News Staff

FRB 190520 is only the second example of a repeating fast radio burst with a compact source of persistent radio emission between bursts. An artist’s...

Oct 14, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have detected 1,652 independent burst events from the FRB 121102...

Jun 11, 2021 by News Staff

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has detected 535 new fast radio bursts — including 18 repeating sources — during...

Apr 16, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) have found that fast radio bursts include...