A Spree of Signals From Across the Universe
Scientists still don’t understand “fast radio bursts,” but they’ve gotten a lot better at discovering them.
About a decade ago, astrophysicists discovered an overlooked signal in some old telescope data: a flash of cosmic energy lasting only a few milliseconds. The signal seemed to have experienced a long and bumpy ride to Earth. Its radio waves had become distorted and were spread across a range of frequencies. This suggested that the radiation
