Fast radio bursts, strong pulses of energy detected in radio-wave frequencies, may be a common phenomenon in the cosmos, but their enigmatic origins are something astronomers are only beginning to ...

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since the first detection of the phenomenon in 2007. The enigmatic signals, known ...

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst’s origin, a longstanding ...

Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron ...

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NEW YORK — Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about one ...

Total daily exposure time (UTC and topocentric at CHIME near Penticton, Canada) at the position of FRB 20240209A (blue points) and detection times of the repeat bursts (gray vertical lines). Credit: ...

On-burst and off-burst spectra across the CHIME observing band from 400–800 MHz (left panels). A zoom-in around 472–477 MHz (the yellow bar in the left panels) is plotted in the right panels. Credit: ...

Pulsars, the rapidly rotating neutron stars discovered over half a century ago, offer profound insights into extreme physics, including strong gravity and the behaviour of matter under extraordinary ...

With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...