A Canadian-led research team has doubled the number of repeating fast radio bursts, adding 25 new ‘cosmic probes’.
Apr 26, 2023
The CHIME telescope detected 535 new fast radio bursts during its first year of operation – from 2018 and to 2019 – quadrupling the number of known occurrences of the puzzling pulses of radio energy from far outside our galaxy.
Jun 9, 2021
A team of scientists in Canada has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded, providing new clues about the brief, puzzling pulses of radio energy from far outside our galaxy.
Jan 9, 2019
If only calculating the distance between Earth and far-off galaxies was as easy as pulling out the old measuring tape.
Sep 18, 2015
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