Scientists have discovered a series of radio waves 500 million light-years away that seems to be following a pattern
A mysterious object 500 million light-years away has been discovered transmitting signals toward Earth in a repeating pattern — and researchers can’t figure out why.
Scientists have zeroed in on an area of the sky where fast radio bursts, known as FRBs, have occurred every 16.35 days,FRBs typically release just once, but if they repeat, it’s almost always in an erratic cluster. This is the first time an FRB has been seen following a uniform pattern. “The discovery of a 16.35-day periodicity in a repeating FRB source is an important clue to the nature of this object,” the authors wrote in the pre-print of a paper set to be published inIn the 16-day progression that scientists observed, the object flashes one to two radio pulses every hour for four days then goes silent for 12 days before repeating the sequence again.
“We conclude that this is the first detected periodicity of any kind in an FRB source,” the researchers said.
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