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‘Extraordinary’ Signal From Space Provides New Insight Into Early Universe
The signal may help explain how galaxies and stars formed, researchers said, after detecting an unusually distant radio burst.
- On Thursday, astronomers from the University of Sydney detected the most distant fast radio burst ever observed, with the signal traveling more than 10 billion years across the cosmos before reaching Earth; the study appears in the journal Science.
- Since their discovery in 2007, thousands of FRBs have been detected, yet their origins remain mysterious because these events last only milliseconds and carry the energy the Sun produces over several days.
- Analysis revealed the host galaxy is 100 times smaller than typical FRB sources, with a precise redshift of 2.148 indicating the burst originated when the universe was only about 3 billion years old.
- Characteristics of the young, star-forming galaxy point to magnetars—highly magnetized neutron stars formed in massive star explosions—as potential FRB sources, offering new clues about these mysterious phenomena.
- Over the next three years, the team plans to search for more FRBs at similar cosmic distances using JWST, potentially unlocking insights into galaxy evolution and the invisible matter between galaxies.
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An international team of astronomers has detected and tracked the most distant radio blast (FRB) ever recorded, a powerful and fleeting flash of waves that traveled through space for more than 10 billion years before reaching Earth.Rapid bursts of radio have gained by pulse the title of being one of the most mysterious objects of modern astronomy. These are elusive phenomena that last just a few milliseconds, appear without warning in any corner…
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The Independent (US)Astronomers find mysterious signal coming to us from the early universe
Blast of energy originated just three billion years after the Big Bang
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‘Extraordinary’ signal from space provides new insight into early universe
Some experts have suggested they may be from an extraterrestrial lifeform trying to contact Earth.
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