Record-breaking radio burst could help us find the universe's missing matter
An 8 billion-year-old Fast Radio Burst could help astronomers solve the mystery of the universe's missing matter.
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An 8 billion-year-old Fast Radio Burst could help astronomers solve the mystery of the universe's missing matter.
Exactly what causes fast radio bursts has become one of astronomy's great mysteries.
Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that sent an incredibly powerful blast of radio waves hurtling through the universe.Astronomers revealed on Thursday that this particular FRB was more powerful and came from much farther away than any previously recorded, having travelled eight billion light years from when the universe was less than half its current age.
These signals emit as much energy in milliseconds as the sun does in three days.
The Dark Ages are the period of time between the Big Bang and the birth of stars and galaxies.