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Originally Posted by Chris Chipello, McGill University Newsroom
Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
The findings indicate that these “fast radio bursts” come from an extremely powerful object which occasionally produces multiple bursts in under a minute.
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Press release here -
http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channe...-repeat-259440
“A Repeating Fast Radio Burst,” by L. Spitler et al, Nature, published online March 2, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17168