Some scientists believe these signals could be a communication path between extraterrestrial civilizations.
Using the CHIME radio telescope in Canada, an international team of scientists has discovered 25 new mysterious signals from space, the nature of which is still unknown. We are talking about fast radio bursts, or FRBs, which are short bursts of energy. And at once, they have more energy in one millisecond than the Sun in three days. ScienceAlert writes that current theories cannot fully explain the origin of these cosmic phenomena, and some scientists even believe it is a means of communication between extraterrestrials and civilizations.
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To date, astronomers using the CHIME radio telescope have detected more than 1,000 fast radio bursts, most lasting just a few milliseconds. But some are repetitive. It is these repetitive FRBs, or 25 new signals, that the scientists discovered.
No theory can fully explain the nature of these signals or exactly where they came from. Some scientists believe they appear in neutron stars or black holes, others believe their sources are pulsars and magnetars (a special type of neutron star), and still others insist that extraterrestrial civilizations usually communicate in this way.
The CHIME radio telescope was originally created to study the expansion history of the universe, but has also proven to be an ideal tool for detecting FRBs. Of the more than 1,000 fast radio bursts that scientists have detected to date, only 29 are considered repetitive signals. And it turns out that they are repeated extremely irregularly. The only exception to the rule was a fast radio burst called FRB 180916, which was recorded regularly every 16 days.
In addition to discovering 25 new FRBs, the scientists also uncovered some of their properties that could provide a more accurate picture of the causes and nature of these signals.
The scientists concluded that some one-time FRBs may actually be repetitive, only their sources are not very active and the repetitions are not corrected.
Focus I wrote 2 years ago that scientists had found that fast radio bursts can be repeated both once and multiple times.
same Focus He wrote last year that scientists discovered the longest fast radio burst. It turned out that the new signal took 1000 times longer than other similar signals.
As already written FocusIn January of this year, scientists recorded the most distant radio signal ever discovered. This signal came from a galaxy almost 9 billion light-years away.
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