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Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts May Flash Every Second

  

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Via:  matti-viikate  •  8 years ago  •  2 comments

Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts May Flash Every Second


Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts May Flash Every Second
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This artist's illustration shows part of the cosmic web, a filamentary structure of galaxies that extends across the entire sky. The bright-blue point sources shown here are the signals from fast radio bursts (FRBs) that may accumulate in a radio exposure lasting for a few minutes. The radio signal from an FRB lasts for only a few thousandths of a second, but such bursts should occur at high rates.

Credit: M. Weiss/Cfa

The bizarre, powerful flashes of light known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) may be far more common than astronomers had thought.

Throughout   the universe , at least one FRB is blasting out intense radio emissions every second, a new study suggests.

"If we are right about such a high rate of FRBs happening at any given time, you can imagine the sky is filled with flashes like paparazzi taking photos of a celebrity," study lead author Anastasia Fialkov, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), said in a statement. [ Mysterious Fast Radio Burst's Extragalactic Host Pinpointed (Video) ]


https://www.space.com/38265-fast-radio-bursts-flash-every-second.html


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Matti Viikate
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1  seeder  Matti Viikate    8 years ago

Thank you for visiting, comments are welcome.

 
 
 
Kavika
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2  Kavika     8 years ago

The artists renditions are worth reading the article.

Beautiful imagery and interesting information.

 
 

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