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Fast Radio Bursts (FRB)

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    11th Jun, 2022

Context

Recently, astronomers have reported a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) whose characteristics are different from almost all other FRBs previously detected, except one.

About Fast Radio Burst (FRB)

  • FRBs are super intense, millisecond-long bursts of radio waves produced by unidentified sources in the distant cosmos.
  • They were first discovered in 2007 when scientists combed through archival pulsar data.
  • Pulsars refer to spherical, compact objects in the universe, which are about the size of a large city but contain more mass than the sun.
  • They often look like flickering stars but are not stars.


Significance

  • It can be used to understand the three–dimensional structure of matter in the universe.
  • It will even help to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe.
  • Big questions still remain, and this object is giving us challenging clues about those questions relating to the Universe.

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