Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms

[Nevilledog]

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Scientists have traced the locations of multiple mysterious fast radio bursts back to their origins with help from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The millisecond-long radio blasts came from the arms of distant spiral galaxies.

Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms
Scientists have traced the locations of multiple mysterious fast radio bursts back to their origins with help from the Hubble Space Telescope. The millisecond-long radio blasts came from the arms of...
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4:01 PM · May 20, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/world/fast-radio-bursts-origin-galaxies-scn/index.html

(CNN) — Scientists have traced the locations of multiple mysterious fast radio bursts back to their origins with help from the Hubble Space Telescope -- and it's not what they expected.

The cause of these mysterious millisecond-long radio blasts in space has eluded scientists since the phenomena was discovered in 2007. Given how quick they flare, these bursts, sometimes called FRBs, are very difficult to track and study.

Learning more about the origin of these bright, intense radio bursts could help scientists understand what causes them.

An international team of astronomers was able to trace the locations of eight fast radio bursts. While the origins of three remain inconclusive, the researchers used Hubble's deep-space imaging to pinpoint the distant galaxies where these bursts originated, including their exact locations within the galaxies.

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[underpants]

1. Sweet

[Botany]

2. I wonder

[Sneederbunk]

3. Just as I thought.

[turbinetree]

4. Thank you................

[WHITT]

5. Oh, NOW They Want To Contact Us

Where were they when we could have used them during the previous administration?

[JHB]

10. Hey, hey hey, now. All those signals are at LEAST 2.5 Million years old...

...so we'd have to expect a certain bias toward Pleistocene-Americans.

[WHITT]

11. To Advanced Civilizations

time is but a stream.

[Celerity]

12. 400 million to 9 billion years old

[Towlie]

6. So you think radio was invented in the 19th Century? It was over 9 billion years earlier than that.

 
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The radio bursts they traced were located along the arms of different spiral galaxies ranging between about 400 million to 9 billion light-years away.

That's twice the age of Planet Earth.

[Akoto]

7. Lots of interesting news in the realm of space lately! n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. I, for one, welcome our new Fast Radio Bursting overlords!

[orwell]

9. Are they sending an order...

...for Peperoni Pizza and six packs of IPA?

Hope the pizza delivery person has a starship...

[DVRacer]

13. Researchers were able to translate them

“We are attempting to contact you about your car warranty that is about to expire” was what the signals read.

[MineralMan]

14. LOL!