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Astronomers in the Netherlands have detected five new fast radio bursts in the universe after upgrading their telescope to become “one of the most powerful” in the world.
These bursts of radio waves last on a fraction of a millisecond, but they are some of the brightest explosions in the universe.
It is so powerful that it can be seen by telescopes more than four billion light-years away, according to a study.
The research team reported that three fast radio bursts – one of which packs ten trillion times the amount of energy consumed around the world in a single year – has ‘distorted’ our neighboring triangular galaxy.
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The source of the fast radio bursts
Scientists have not yet come to know the source of the fast radio explosions, but some scientists believe that they emanate from neutron stars.
Others posit more exotic origins—because their fleeting nature has made them difficult to study closely, until now.
“We now have an instrument with a very wide field of view and very sharp vision,” Principal Investigator Jori van Leeuwen said in a statement. And all this lives. This is new and exciting.”
The findings, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on Wednesday, are made possible by a new supercomputer and upgraded receivers on their telescope at Westerbrook.
“One cannot afford to buy the complex electronics you need for this,” said system engineer Eric Koestra. We designed most of the system ourselves, with a great team. The result is a sophisticated machine, one of the most powerful in the world.”
And with the latest technology, scientists hope that phenomena will be increasingly identifiable, as shown in the new report.
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The number of invisible electrons in the triangle galaxy
The results also allowed the researchers to investigate the number of “invisible” electrons in the Triangulum Galaxy by observing how the burst of light distorts as it penetrates space, thus shedding more light on the molecular structure of the universe.
Astronomers have recorded a number of fast radio bursts since 2007, according to Space.com, after the advent of ultramodern telescopes.
And in June 2021, it was announced that Canadian researchers had detected more than 500 fast radio bursts over a 12-month period between 2018 and 2019, the New York Post previously reported.
In 2019, astrophysicists were able to locate, for the first time, a fast radio burst from a distant galaxy several billion light-years away.
