Alien radio signals detected repeating with a regular 16-day cycle

SKY News ^ | February 10, 2020

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Astronomers have never before seen fast radio bursts being emitted in such a regular pattern, and still don't know their origin.

Astronomers have detected alien signals - that is, signals from a foreign galaxy - being emitted in an unusually regular 16-day cycle.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are not in and of themselves unusual - the first was detected in 2007 - but previous observations have shown them to be mostly emitted at random.

While there have been some bursts which repeated, as astronomers discovered previously, they have never been seen repeating in such a steady cycle.

The origin of FRBs hasn't been established yet, although the dominant theories regarding them suggest the signals are produced by rapidly rotating bodies such as neutron stars or black holes.

Researchers studying data from the radio telescope used by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) found the FRB signals arrived on Earth up to twice an hour for four days before suddenly stopping, only to start up again twelve days later.

Its origin was located within a medium-sized spiral galaxy about 500 million light-years away, making it the closest FRB discovered to date.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

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[N. Theknow]

[Redcitizen]

For later read.

[Viking2002]

Celestial lighthouse.

[Hot Tabasco]

What if there is a continuously emitting celestial body that is blocked by other orbiting celestial bodies almost continuously - except for a small period every 16 days?

My bowling team discussed that very topic last Friday night. We couldn't come up with an answer.....

[Vermont Lt]

There is no indication that these signals originate from any intelligent source. And even if they did, those folks are dust by now.

[GingisK]

I hadn’t thought of that. It is a certainly a decent explanation.

[txnativegop]

Sounds like a Pulsar with a regular 16 day period.

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[txnativegop]

I like your idea.

[gandalftb]

Binary stars are well known.
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Simple answers are usually correct. It surprises me that this got so much attention without a host of “experts” explaining it.

[txnativegop]

my first thought was a pulsar, but I never considered a binary system. Which in retrospect was silly of me, since binary star systems are by far the most common type of stellar system.

[Does so]

We’re fortunate to be alone.

[Phlap]

Indeed we are.