Now Astronomers have Discovered “Ultra-Fast Radio Bursts” Lasting Millionths of a Second

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Now Astronomers have Discovered “Ultra-Fast Radio Bursts” Lasting Millionths of a Second
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Artist rendition of a radio telescope discovering ultra-fast radio bursts that were recently discovered and the focus of this recent study. published in Nature Astronomy examines the discovery of what astronomers are dubbing “ultra-fast radio bursts”, a new type of fast radio bursts that the team determined lasts for a mind-boggling ten millionths of a second or less.

The researchers note, “In detecting and characterizing these microsecond-duration bursts, we show that there exists a population of ultra-fast radio bursts that current wide-field FRB searches are missing due to insufficient time resolution. These results indicate that FRBs occur more frequently and with greater diversity than initially thought. This could also influence our understanding of energy, wait time, and burst rate distributions.

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