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Researchers Probe Origin of Superpowerful Radio Blasts from Space
Space.com ^ | January 10, 2018 01:00pm ET | Charles Q. Choi, Contributor |

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: arecibo; callingartbell; catastrophism; fastradioburst; fastradiobursts; frb; frb121102; frbs; xplanets
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1 posted on 01/10/2018 4:21:23 PM PST by BenLurkin
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"Researchers Probe Origin of Superpowerful Radio Blasts from Space"

Space truckers. Ten-four?
2 posted on 01/10/2018 4:24:59 PM PST by clearcarbon
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Electro-Ping!


3 posted on 01/10/2018 4:26:32 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: clearcarbon
Oh yeah. I saw that movie....


4 posted on 01/10/2018 4:30:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Fast radio burst

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst


5 posted on 01/10/2018 4:31:56 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
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Probably Zoltar’s luminous one chewing him/her out again.


6 posted on 01/10/2018 4:32:52 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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8 posted on 01/10/2018 4:46:05 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s my Mom calling!


9 posted on 01/10/2018 4:50:46 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (NOT TITO)
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To: BenLurkin
Close up of FRB 121102...


10 posted on 01/10/2018 4:56:20 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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The FRB’s correspond digitally to a repeated sequence of numbers.

8-6-7-5-3-0-9


11 posted on 01/10/2018 4:58:34 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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It’s the screams of a star being digested in the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.


12 posted on 01/10/2018 4:59:17 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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Lol.


13 posted on 01/10/2018 5:02:18 PM PST by dhs12345
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15 posted on 01/10/2018 5:17:13 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: BenLurkin

The dossier...It’s,it’s a cookbook


16 posted on 01/10/2018 5:22:35 PM PST by Hambone 1934
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17 posted on 01/10/2018 5:34:20 PM PST by DoodleBob
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STENDEC


18 posted on 01/10/2018 5:36:13 PM PST by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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It says “Mom - Send more money”


19 posted on 01/10/2018 5:40:27 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: BenLurkin

So unelucidating, these replies.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.


20 posted on 01/10/2018 6:01:04 PM PST by onedoug
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