Daily Mail
May 11, 2017
Since they were first detected 10 years ago, rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, known as fast radio bursts, have remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.
And the latest fast radio burst, called FRB 150215, might be the most perplexing one yet.
Despite spending the last two years using telescopes to find anything associated with it, researchers have admitted they’re still clueless about where this one came from.
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy first detected FRB 150215 in 2015, and have been working since to understand its source.
Speaking to Gizmodo, Emily Petroff, who is leading the study, said: ‘We spent a lot of time with a lot of telescopes to find anything associated with it.
‘We got new wavelength windows we’ve never gotten before.
‘We’re still trying to figure out where this one came from.’
This article was posted: Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 9:04 am
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