While these curious signals are alien in origin, no one should be expecting little green men contacting their friends in Area 51 about the allegedly impending September raid. We currently don’t know what these bursts are or what causes them, though some suspect they may be the death rattles of neutron stars or young magnetars, extremely dense star cores spinning in a magnetic field.
The eight new repeating FRBs detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope now bring the total number of known repeating FRBs to 10. These perplexing, ‘alien’ signals have captured humanity’s attention for over a decade, as the world’s best and brightest try to figure out both what they are and what causes them.
The majority of FRBs are only detected once and then they disappear, but a select few are repeaters which may provide unprecedented insights into the composition of our universe...read more>>>...
