A New Mystery Signal Is Repeating From a Distant Galaxy, And It's a Weird One

[Judi Lynn]

MICHELLE STARR8 JUNE 2022

A newly discovered source of repeating fast radio bursts has deepened the mystery of what, precisely, could be producing these powerful outbursts.

The source, first detected in 2019 and named FRB 190520B, seems to be frequently spitting out millisecond bursts of powerful radio waves.

This has allowed astronomers to perform analyses that reveal information about where it comes from in the Universe, and the space around it. Those analyses suggest that there is probably more than one mechanism in the big wide cosmos capable of producing these strange outbursts.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), as the name suggests, are very fast bursts of radiation (lasting only milliseconds in duration) that flare brightly in radio wavelengths.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-mystery-signal-is-repeating-from-a-distant-galaxy-and-it-s-a-weird-un

[Old Crank]

1. They are messsges

Help! A death star is attacking us! Help!

[w0nderer]

2. or, shhhhhh they'll hear you! n/t

[3Hotdogs]

4. 'If you have an auto warrantee that is about to expire.."

I can't translate the rest of the message.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. 😂

[tavernier]

3. The article states that

a coherent picture is likely to emerge in the near future.
Is it because as more information comes in, the cumulative picture will become clearer, or because we will in time have better and stronger instruments to measure these radio bursts?

[KS Toronado]

5. How do you decode a language you've never heard?

Let's hope it isn't a Twilight Zone "To Serve Man" message.

[cstanleytech]

7. "Let's hope it isn't a Twilight Zone "To Serve Man" No multicellular life was on earth at that time

so the odds of that are rather low.

[Sancho]

6. resistance it futile...

...

[edbermac]

9. Scientists have been able to decode part of the signal.