Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! FRBs last just a few milliseconds, and astronomers have detected less than a couple dozen of them without our current telescopes. Where do scientists think they come from?
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Sources:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a25609/fast-radio-bursts-alien-space-travel/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-fast-radio-bursts/
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2017-09
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Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neutron_star_illustrated.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Holes_-_Monsters_in_Space.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHIME_Pathfinder.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHIME_experiment_construction_-_2015-07-16.jpg
