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  • Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin

    01/07/2020 8:25:46 AM PST · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    www.sciencealert.com ^ | 7 JAN 2020 | MICHELLE STARR
    A mysterious repeating radio signal from space revealed last year is now the fifth fast radio burst to be tracked back to its source galaxy. It's a location unlike any of the others, and astronomers are having to rethink their previous assumptions about how these signals are generated. The origin of this repeating signal is a spiral galaxy, located 500 million light-years from Earth, making it the closest known source of what we call fast radio bursts (FRBs) yet. And the FRBs are emanating specifically from a region just seven light-years across - a region that's alive with star formation....