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Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer-Space Radio Wave
In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only milliseconds.
Detecting one of these signals is an achievement in itself, but identifying its origin and understanding the nature of its source remains one of the great challenges of science. The CHIME radio telescope in Canada, one of the world's leading FRB observatories, and a subnetwork of smaller stations called Outriggers detected the anomalous outburst. Because of the enormous energy they release and the brevity of the phenomenon, it is likely that they originate from extreme cosmic events, such as neutron star mergers, magnetars, or pulsars.
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