Astronomers Detect Mysterious 8-Billion-Year-Old Radio Signal
Astronomers have detected a mysterious fast radio burst that took over eight billion years to reach earth, the journal Science reported Thursday.
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Astronomers have detected a mysterious fast radio burst that took over eight billion years to reach earth, the journal Science reported Thursday.
The mysterious fast radio burst - identified as FRB 20220610A - only lasted a millisecond, but emitted more than 30 years of the sun's energetic emissions.
Several galaxies merged nearly 8 billion years ago. The energy they released was picked up by Australian space telescopes in June 2022.
Astronomers have detected an intense flash of radio waves coming from what looks like a merger of galaxies dating to about 8 billion years ago - the oldest-known instance of a phenomenon called a fast radio burst that continues to defy explanation.
Astronomers have detected a mysterious blast of radio waves that have taken 8 billion years to reach Earth. The fast radio burst is one of the most distant and energetic ever observed.