[SOC] Scientists pin down the origins of a fast radio burst

[AL7JK John]

Thank you for sharing this ! Ground breaking news. This is some next level
stuff.
Been reading about this Canadian site that has really been getting into this
FRB action at:
https://chime-experiment.ca/en
 When will our planet get hammered by the next FRB ?

73
AL7JK


On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM Quikhooligan via SOC <soc at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Fast Radio Bursts?  No, it's not a new digital mode designed to compete
> with FT8.
>
> "Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves
> emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars and possibly
> black holes. These fleeting fireworks last for just a thousandth of a
> second and can carry an enormous amount of energy—enough to briefly
> outshine entire galaxies.
>
> "Since the first fast radio burst (FRB) was discovered in 2007,
> astronomers have detected thousands of FRBs, whose locations range from
> within our own galaxy to as far as 8 billion light-years away. Exactly
> how these cosmic radio flares are launched is a highly contested unknown.
>
> "Now, astronomers at MIT have pinned down the origins of at least one
> fast radio burst using a novel technique that could do the same for
> other FRBs."
>
> https://phys.org/news/2024-12-scientists-pin-fast-radio.html
>
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