Mysterious Deep-Space Flashes: 19 More 'Fast Radio Bursts' Found

[Judi Lynn]

By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 10, 2018 01:01pm ET

Telescopes have picked up a huge number of mysterious signals coming from deep in space, Australian researchers have announced.

The radio telescopes have nearly doubled the number of the known “fast radio bursts” – bright flashes of radio waves that make their way to Earth from deep space.

And the signals represent the closest and brightest of the bursts that have ever been found.

Fast radio bursts are one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe. They are blasts of incredible energy – equivalent to the amount released by the Sun in 80 years – that last for just a moment, and come from a mysterious source.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/frb-fast-radio-bursts-space-alien-life-proof-extra-terrestrial-telescope-nasa-galaxy-a8578011.html

[ZZenith]

1. "-.. ..- -- .--. - .-. ..- -- .--. "

What could it mean?!

[yonder]

2. Thanks for your always interesting posts, JL.

I perked right up seeing this one in particular.

It's like the beginning of a science fiction movie: a small group of scientists observe some unusual phenomena and then weird things start happening with the good guys usually winning out in the end.

Maybe the Galactic Federation has been paying attention to our befouling of the nest and they're taking the first steps in letting us know they are not going to put up with it.

Or not.

[Judi Lynn]

9. It got my attention, for sure. Definitely unexpected. Thanks for your comment. n/t

[AllyCat]

3. Aliens are coming to rescue us!

Just kidding. Very interesting

[Marie Marie]

5. I hope so.

I think they have been reading Trump's tweets and have had about enough of his shit.

[denvine]

4. Maybe they know about Space Force

and are ready to shut it down!!!!!!!!!!!

[DemocracyMouse]

6. It's not alien signals from an ET, it's from something really big that's pulsing

.... something so big that each pulse is equivalent to the amount of energy our sun gives off in 80 years.

Is anyone actually reading the post?

[LuvLoogie]

8. That's about the equivalent of 2.5 billion suns pulsing for one second.

A relatively small area of one galaxy, perhaps, if you consider that Andromeda is estimated to have about 1 trillion stars.

Could a sentience existing for a billion years harness/manipulate the energy of a galaxy so as to channel/focus the waves like one's thumb on a garden hose?

[yonder]

11. Yes. "each pulse is equivalent to the amount of energy our sun gives off in 80 years."

Maybe that's what the Galactic Federation wants us to believe?

[Botany]

7. "It's the way it has been done for billions of years.'

[MichMary]

10. The truth is out there.

[MineralMan]

12. Yet another fun mystery for scientists to examine.

With reference to the black holes article posted above, maybe this is the information about all that matter that has been sucked into black holes.

One thing I'm sure of, though, is that it's a natural phenomenon, not something created by beings of any kind. Far too much energy involved.

[Sancho]

13. A galactic lighthouse?