There is a new kind of mystery object in space, and after capturing their best image yet, astronomers are one step closer to understanding these celestial oddballs.
Repeating fast radio bursts are among the more rare and recent mysteries in the cosmos, and the latest discovery of a repeater confounds astronomers’ evolving understanding of the bright flashes of energy from deep space that last for just milliseconds.
Astronomers have detected two more millisecond-duration radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154, a magnetar located over 14,000 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula. The detection supports the hypothesis that — at least some — fast radio bursts are emitted by magnetars at cosmological distances.
The elusive particles would be hard to catch, but they’d be a smoking gun, researchers say
Most FRBs originate hundreds of millions of light-years away. This one came from inside the Milky Way.
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected
Roughly half of the “normal” matter in the universe—the stuff that makes up stars, planets, and even us—exists as mere wisps of material floating in intergalactic space, according to cosmologists. But astronomers had no good way to confirm that, until now.
Something — or someone — has its deep-space music on repeat.
A blast of radio waves from deep space appears to be on a 16-day cycle
Things are only getting more confusing.
