Something has breathed new life into a faraway cosmic mystery machine and caused it to repeatedly hurl tremendous amounts of energy into the void.This phenomenon was only type classified 10 years ago. Astronomers thought then it would turn out to be a one-off, but it's back. No one knows much about it.
It’s not clear exactly what that object is, but scientists refer to the observable phenomenon as a fast radio burst: a fleeting but extremely powerful blast of radio waves. In this case, astronomers caught a rapid stream of radio bursts coming from a galaxy about three billion light-years away.
The article also has a stunning array of Hubble telescope images, worth your time if you are interested in that sort of thing.
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| The Large Magellanic Cloud, visible only from the southern hemisphere. |
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