Posted on 01/10/2018 4:21:23 PM PST by BenLurkin
New work probes the extraterrestrial source of incredibly powerful explosions of radio waves, investigating why that spot is the only known location to repeatedly burst with these blasts. These repeating bursts may come from a dense stellar core called a neutron star near an extraordinarily powerful magnetic field, such as one near a massive black hole, the study finds.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are intense pulses of radio waves lasting just milliseconds that can give off more energy in a fraction of a second than the sun does in hours, days or weeks. FRBs were discovered only in 2007, and while researchers have detected 20 or so FRBs in the past decade, they estimate that such flashes might occur as many as 10,000 times a day across the entire sky, researchers wrote in the study.
Much remains a mystery about the origins of FRBs, because their brief nature makes it difficult to pinpoint where they come from. Among the possibilities that prior work suggested are cataclysmic events such as the evaporation of black holes and collisions between neutron stars.
However, in 2016, scientists discovered that a fast radio burst known as FRB 121102 could release multiple bursts. "It is the only known repeating fast radio burst source," study co-lead author Jason Hessels, an astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam, told Space.com.
That FRB 121102 can explode over and over again suggests it does not come from some one-time cataclysmic event, Hessels said. "A key question in the field is whether this repeating fast radio burst source is fundamentally different compared to all the other apparently nonrepeating sources," he said.
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Electro-Ping!
Probably Zoltar’s luminous one chewing him/her out again.
Put your hands in your pockets. They want more money because trillions spent on their backhoele agencies aren’t enough for them.
All that transformable technology of G-Force and phoenix command ship won’t be cheap.
I’m kind of whacked at the moment. Bit of flu going around and I got picked. Posting helps me focus while waiting on Tamiflu.
It’s my Mom calling!
The FRB’s correspond digitally to a repeated sequence of numbers.
8-6-7-5-3-0-9
It’s the screams of a star being digested in the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Lol.
The dossier...It’s,it’s a cookbook
STENDEC
It says “Mom - Send more money”
So unelucidating, these replies.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
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