A flash of radio waves from a young galaxy 3 billion years after the Big Bang is lighting up 80% of the universe’s history.
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Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space as tiny particles.
The quest to pin down the source of the burst led to a derelict 60-year-old satellite.
A record-breaking discovery of an extreme ‘fast radio burst’ opens a window into the early universe.
Massive flashes of energy known as ‘fast radio bursts’ have puzzled astronomers for years – and a new search for links to gravitational waves has so far found no connection.
One of the few examples of a fast radio burst and the slow-moving, star forming gas in its origin galaxy has been linked together – thanks to observations from a CSIRO telescope.
Magnetic fields billions of light years away offer clues to the nature of intense flashes from the sky known as fast radio bursts.
For years, astronomers have been detecting incredibly powerful pulses from the cosmos, without a confirmed source. Recent advances in astronomy are getting us closer to the solution.
Astronomers studying fast radio bursts recently discovered one that repeats, has a persistent radio signal and originated in a galaxy much closer than it should have.
Complementary science will be at the heart of the Square Kilometre Array.
Fast radio bursts are the focus of a young and fascinating field of astronomy. Researchers just released data on more than 500 new bursts, quadrupling the total number of detected events.
Australian astronomers are part of a prize-winning team that was the first to pinpoint the location of a fast radio burst. But there is much we still don’t know about these mysterious bursts.
Visitors are discouraged from the remote desert location where powerful telescopes are listening to the universe.
Cosmologists had only been able to find half the matter that should exist in the universe. With the discovery of a new astronomical phenomenon and new telescopes, researchers just found the rest.
For the first time scientists have located the home galaxy of a one-off fast radio burst. Here’s how they did it – and what they learned about the galaxy.
Perhaps precisely because they are so elusive, Fast Radio Bursts have received a lot of attention in the years since their discovery.
Astronomers think they’ve identified which galaxy was the source of a blast radio energy, over in a fraction of a second. And it’s much closer to us than the others detected, so far.
We still don’t know what causes these mysterious Fast Radio Bursts deep in the universe, but we’ve detected a whole new batch of them.
By sharing a location with the SKA, HIRAX will be able to conduct science in “radio-clear” skies across its wide frequency range.
It used to take weeks to find any of these mysterious signals from deep in space but when the new telescope started looking it found one within days. Then another.
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