Astronomers detect rhythmic fast radio bursts from unknown source outside galaxy

Astromers and researchers have detected on “curious, repeating” rhythm of fast rio bursts emerging from an unidentified source that is at least 500 million light-years away from Milky Way. team involving Massachusetts Institute of Techlogy (MIT) picked up on FRBs which are brief but intense flashes of rio waves are presumed to be originated from small, distant yet ‘extremely’ dense objects. However, exact source remains a “longstanding mystery in astrophysics”. Moreover, according to researchers, se FRB can last only for a span of few milliseconds but during that tome “y can outshine entire galaxies”. 

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first of such Fast rio bursts were observed back in 2007 and since n astromers have catalogued more than a hundred FRBs that are a product of faraway sources outside our galaxy. However, new FRB source that has been catalogued as FRB 180916.J0158+65 is first of its kind as it produces FRBs in a periodic manner. astromers have also found out that se patterns begin in a n-periodic manner for at least four days and n followed by 12-day silence. entire 16-day pattern has been detected by researchers continuously for over 500 days. 

researchers said, “This new FRB source, which team has catalogued as FRB 180916.J0158+65, is first to produce a periodic, or cyclical pattern of fast rio bursts. pattern begins with a isy, four-day window, during which source emits random bursts of rio waves, followed by a 12-day period of rio silence.”

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‘It's like a clockwork’

Kiyoshi Masui, assistant professor of physics in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Research has said that newly discovered source of FRB is like a “clockwork”. He has t only called it “most distinctive pattern” but also a great hint to trace down source that emits such bursts. 

“This FRB we’re reporting w is like clockwork,” says Kiyoshi Masui. “It’s most definitive pattern we’ve seen from one of se sources. And it’s a big clue that we can use to start hunting down physics of what’s causing se bright flashes, which body really understands.”

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