Astronomers have identified the farthest-known fast radio burst ever detected, a powerful flash of radio waves that originated over 10 billion years ago and has traversed roughly 80% of the universe’s history to reach Earth. The discovery sheds light on one of the cosmos’s most enigmatic phenomena, as scientists continue to investigate the extreme energy sources behind these fleeting cosmic signals. The burst’s immense age suggests it may provide new insights into the early universe and the conditions that gave rise to such high-energy events. Researchers are now analyzing the signal to better understand its origins and implications for astrophysics.
Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a mysterious flash of energy was released into the universe.Astronomers have now detected that flash, a burst of radio waves which travelled for more than 10bn years before reaching Earth – what they believe to be the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. Continue reading...
