More than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts have been detected by the CHIME radio telescope in its first year of operation, astronomers have revealed. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly from space, ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds. CHIME has nearly quadrupled the number of fast radio bursts discovered to date, according to the CHIME Collaboration, which includes researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The telescope detected 535 new fast radio bursts during its first year of operation, from July 2018 to July 2019. Image provided by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment collaboration shows the CHIME radio telescope The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime) is a radio telescope in Canada.

Source: Daily Mail June 09, 2021 16:16 UTC