Canadian telescope finds mysterious radio flashes from deep space

Canadian telescope finds mysterious radio flashes from deep space

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/canadian-telescope-finds-mysterious-radio-flashes-deep-space

A new Canadian radio telescope in British Columbia has already bagged 13 mysterious radio bursts. 

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON—A new Canadian radio telescope, not yet fully operational, has already detected more than a dozen of the mysteriously brief blasts from deep space known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). One is only the second known to flash repeatedly, researchers reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The early results from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) suggest the scope is well on its way to adding hundreds or even thousands of FRBs to the 60 or so already known—hopefully revealing the source of these powerful millisecondslong pulses in the process.