Three New Fast Radio Bursts

[sherlew99]

Yahoo News



Astronomers Discover Three New Fast Radio Bursts

Avaneesh Pandey

International Business Times April 3, 2017



A team of astronomers associated with Australia’s Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope announced Monday the discovery of three new Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) — intense bursts of radio emission lasting mere milliseconds. In addition to adding to the extremely short list of such events detected so far and providing the first interferometric observations of FRBs, the discovery lends further support to the theory that these mysterious flashes originate in outer space.

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[pickinduck]

"Extremely short list"?
I thought that I seen not to long ago that FRBs were in the hundreds.

[sherlew99]

There aren't that many. Wikipedia has a list of them.

Where it's an 'extremely short list' or not is dependent upon what one thinks a short list is.

[pickinduck]

Some of them seem to me to be unnatural. Are these alien communications that no one wants to admit?

[sherlew99]

Perhaps, though it is hard to pinpoint a source that is so far away for certain.