Scientists from Australia managed to detect three mysterious new fast radio bursts, also known as "FRB signals". A message about this appeared on the official website of the Swinburne University of Technology.
The team, led by Manishi Caleb, conducted the study using the Molonglo radio telescope, which is located 40 kilometers from Canberra. Before making this amazing discovery, scientists carried out painstaking data analysis.
Molonglo apparatus covers an area of 18 thousand square meters. m. In just 24 hours, he is able to collect information volume of 1000 terabytes. The work of the specialists was crowned with success because they managed to detect three new fast radio bursts, but, unfortunately, they could not find their sources. But calculations showed that they came from deep space.
For the first time, FRB signals (Fast Radio Bursts) were detected by specialists back in 2007. Then the Parkes radio telescope was used. It was a signal of short but very powerful pulses of radio emission. The signals are coming from different locations in deep space. Moreover, repeated radio bursts were not recorded.
Ten such signals have been registered previously. Only in one case was it possible to localize the source. It was in an elliptical galaxy located six billion light-years from the Milky Way. Scientists cannot yet reliably explain the nature of FRB signals.
Dotsenko Alexander