/newsroom/taxonomy/term/13460/all en /newsroom/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 20:03:22 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 217081 at /newsroom