The Dish detects strange deep space blasts
A series of mysterious radio bursts, each lasting just a few milliseconds, have been detected coming from far beyond our galaxy.
The brightness of these explosive pulses, known as FRBs or fast radio bursts, suggests they come from billions of light years away, when the universe was just a fraction of its current age, report astronomers in the journal Science.
The discovery confirms the authenticity of a similar signal called the Lorimer burst, detected in 2007, says the paper's lead author PhD student Dan Thornton of the CSIRO and the University of Manchester.
That event was traced to the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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"They can give off as much energy as the Sun does for 300,000 years, in just a millisecond."
The researchers found the bursts matched a predictable set of characteristics expected from an extragalactic pulse.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/07/05/3796089.htm
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