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Source of Fast Radio Bursts
April 7 , 2023
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- For years, astronomers have been confounded by a special kind of radio signal–fast radio bursts and its source.
- But now, scientists may have found what causes them- neutron stars collapsing into black holes.
- Fast radio bursts are intense but short radio signals that last for milliseconds.
- Recently, astronomers studied two neutron stars colliding and turning into a black hole, generating a burst of gravitational waves.
- After this event, it seems to have produced a fast radio burst.
- So, the merging of two such neutron stars may have caused the strange radio waves.
- But it can only truly apply to the fast radio burst - FRB 20190520B.
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