This is creepy/scary/cool: Scientists are trying to work out what is causing Fast Radio Bursts that are coming from outside the Milky Way Galaxy.
A series of freak pulsing signals have been recorded coming from outside our solar system in a strange, unexplained pattern, scientists have revealed.
Ten “Fast Radio Bursts” (FRBs) have been discovered, and astronomers are completely bemused as to what they are and where they’ve come from.
After carefully studying the bursts, they worked out that all ten dispersion measures are multiples of the same number: 187.5.
Michael Hippke of the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned from the University of Hawaii in Manoa made the discovery and said there’s about a 5 in 10 000 chance that the line-up is a coincidence.
“If the pattern is real, it’s very very hard to explain,” Learned said.
“This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an ET.”
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The radio emissions were so dispersed that experts suggest it could have come from a super massive distance away – billions of light years away, to be more specific.
Theories so far include white dwarfs merging, neutron stars colliding, and alien signals.
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