Cosmic Radio Bursts yield first clues about their origins

Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 10:21 in Astronomy & Space

With the help of the world’s largest steerable radio telescope, a team of researchers that includes a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist has produced the first detailed portrait of a Fast Radio Burst — a brief but highly energetic pulse of radio waves from unknown sources in the distant universe. First detected about a decade ago, […]

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