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The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia is the third facility to have detected a fast radio burst.

American telescope detects clue to source of fast radio bursts.

Elizabeth Gibney
02 December 2015

 

For the past eight years, astronomers have been mystified by sudden, very short blasts of radio waves that defy explanation.

Now the most detailed study so far1 has furnished a clue to the origin of at least one of these strange pulses, or 'fast radio bursts' (FRBs). It came from a dense, magnetized region of space, and was probably emitted by a young neutron star (a compact core left in the aftermath of a supernova), says study author Kiyoshi Masui at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

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