![]() In the paper, the researchers consider the possible causes, like the orbital motion of a star or an object that acts as a companion in the outskirts of the galaxy. “The discovery of a 16.35-day periodicity in a repeating FRB source is an important clue to the nature of this object,” the researchers wrote in their study. Now, the evidence of a pattern in the signal adds to the question of what could cause these bursts to emit the way that they do. It was also within a star-forming region of the arm, the researchers said. FRB 180916 was traced to one of the spiral arms of a Milky Way-esque galaxy. The first repeating fast radio burst traced, FRB 121102, linked back to a small dwarf galaxy containing stars and metals. So far, they have traced single and repeating fast radio bursts back to very different sources, which deepens the mystery. Researchers hope that by tracing the origin of these mysterious bursts, they can determine what caused them. The repeating signal was traced to a massive spiral galaxy around 500 million light-years away. Last year, the CHIME/FRB collaboration detected the sources of eight new repeating fast radio bursts, including this signal. The signal is a known repeating fast radio burst, FRB 180916.J0158+65. The authors of the paper are part of the CHIME/FRB collaboration, which has published a multitude of fast radio burst studies in recent years. The findings are included in the pre-print of a paper on arXiv, meaning the paper has been moderated but not fully peer reviewed. Then, it would go silent for another 12 days. Over the course of four days, the signal would release a burst or two each hour. And usually when they repeat, it’s sporadic or in a cluster, according to previous observations.īetween Septemand October 30, 2019, researchers with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment/Fast Radio Burst Project collaboration detected a pattern in bursts occurring every 16.35 days. But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short, energetic radio waves multiple times. ![]() Individual radio bursts emit once and don’t repeat. (CNN) - Mysterious radio signals from space have been known to repeat, but for the first time, researchers have noticed a pattern in a series of bursts coming from a single source half a billion light-years from Earth.įast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. ![]()
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