We traced a powerful radio signal to the most distant source yet – a galaxy billions of lightyears away
- Written by: Ryan Shannon, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology
Every day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then off all across the sky. These “fast radio bursts” are invisible to the naked eye, but to a radio telescope many almost outshine everything else in the sky for a few thousandths of a second.
Since the first such burst was...
