Astronomers detected two major targets with a single telescope – a mysterious signal and its source galaxy

  • Written by: Marcin Glowacki, Research Associate, Curtin University
Astronomers detected two major targets with a single telescope – a mysterious signal and its source galaxyASKAP multiple landscape backview.CSIRO

Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) – intense, momentary bursts of energy occurring in mere milliseconds and with unknown cosmic origins.

Now, a study of the slow-moving, star-forming gas in the same galaxy found to host an FRB has been...

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