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Related: About this forumMysterious Deep-Space Flashes: 19 More 'Fast Radio Bursts' Found
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 10, 2018 01:01pm ET
Telescopes have picked up a huge number of mysterious signals coming from deep in space, Australian researchers have announced.
The radio telescopes have nearly doubled the number of the known fast radio bursts bright flashes of radio waves that make their way to Earth from deep space.
And the signals represent the closest and brightest of the bursts that have ever been found.
Fast radio bursts are one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe. They are blasts of incredible energy equivalent to the amount released by the Sun in 80 years that last for just a moment, and come from a mysterious source.
More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/frb-fast-radio-bursts-space-alien-life-proof-extra-terrestrial-telescope-nasa-galaxy-a8578011.html
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)What could it mean?!
yonder
(9,666 posts)I perked right up seeing this one in particular.
It's like the beginning of a science fiction movie: a small group of scientists observe some unusual phenomena and then weird things start happening with the good guys usually winning out in the end.
Maybe the Galactic Federation has been paying attention to our befouling of the nest and they're taking the first steps in letting us know they are not going to put up with it.
Or not.
Judi Lynn
(160,532 posts)AllyCat
(16,187 posts)Just kidding. Very interesting
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I think they have been reading Trump's tweets and have had about enough of his shit.
denvine
(800 posts)and are ready to shut it down!!!!!!!!!!!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts).... something so big that each pulse is equivalent to the amount of energy our sun gives off in 80 years.
Is anyone actually reading the post?
LuvLoogie
(7,003 posts)A relatively small area of one galaxy, perhaps, if you consider that Andromeda is estimated to have about 1 trillion stars.
Could a sentience existing for a billion years harness/manipulate the energy of a galaxy so as to channel/focus the waves like one's thumb on a garden hose?
yonder
(9,666 posts)Maybe that's what the Galactic Federation wants us to believe?
Botany
(70,504 posts)MichMary
(1,714 posts)MineralMan
(146,308 posts)With reference to the black holes article posted above, maybe this is the information about all that matter that has been sucked into black holes.
One thing I'm sure of, though, is that it's a natural phenomenon, not something created by beings of any kind. Far too much energy involved.