Bursts

Hints of intriguing diversity seen in super-energetic ‘fast radio bursts’

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The story of sneaky fast radio bursts (FRBs) may be more complicated than we imagined. It’s tough to figure out the origin stories of FRBs because they’re so brief, so bright and appear to come from numerous regions in the sky. Most of these powerful cosmic blasts seem to occur in young galaxies, although that’s … Read more

The mystery deepens: Ghostly neutrinos and fast radio bursts don’t come from the same place

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Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of “Ask a Spaceman” and “Space Radio,” and author of “How to Die in Space.” Sutter contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The universe is a pretty busy place, with stars blowing up, black holes consuming … Read more

New Breakthrough Lets Scientists Track Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts in Real-Time

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Located in the Okanagan Valley outside of Penticton, British Columbia, there is a massive radio observatory dedicated to observing cosmic radio phenomena. It’s called the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a cylindrical parabolic radio telescope that looks like what snowboarders would call a “half-pipe”. This array is part of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory … Read more