Mighty Radio Bursts Linked to Massive Galaxies
November 06, 2024
November 06, 2024
PASADENA, California, Nov. 6 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts--extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light--have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins. Currently, confirmed fast radio bursts, or FRBs, number in the hundreds, and scientists have assembled mounting evidence for what triggers them: highly magnetized neutron stars known as magnetars ( . . .
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts--extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light--have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins. Currently, confirmed fast radio bursts, or FRBs, number in the hundreds, and scientists have assembled mounting evidence for what triggers them: highly magnetized neutron stars known as magnetars ( . . .