/channels/taxonomy/term/5070/all en /channels/channels/news/discovery-fast-radio-burst-pulses-regular-intervals-322835 <p>A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby galaxy pulses at regular intervals.</p> <p>Researchers within the <a href="https://chime-experiment.ca/">Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment</a> (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst Collaboration used the CHIME telescope in British Columbia to show that the repeating radio source known as FRB 180916.J0158+65 – first discovered in 2018 by the same group - pulsates apparently every 16.35 days.</p> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:03:23 +0000 webfull 161436 at /channels /channels/channels/news/repeating-fast-radio-burst-extreme-environment-283756 <p>New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source’s environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.</p> <p><span>The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, appear in the January 11 edition of <em>Nature</em> and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.</span></p> Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:20:02 +0000 webfull 133980 at /channels /channels/news/radio-burst-discovery-deepens-astrophysics-mystery-237427 <p></p> <p style="text-align:left" align="center"><i>Brief pulse detected by Arecibo telescope appears to come from far beyond our galaxy</i></p> <p style="text-align:left" align="center"><i> Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:01:12 +0000 webfull 103490 at /channels