A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought could produce such a signal.

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

Scientists from Northwestern University and McGill University have made a discovery that challenges existing theories about the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs). The findings, published in the ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy -- an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with ...

The powerful burst was also traced to an unprecedented 130,000 light-years from its associated galaxy’s center, where few other stars exist. Fast radio bursts, strong pulses of energy detected ...

Astronomers added another piece to the puzzle with the detection of an FRB that seems to originate in a dead galaxy that is no ... while others seem to burst once and go silent.

The research appears in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters, in two papers: “A repeating fast radio burst source in the outskirts of a quiescent galaxy” and “The massive and quiescent ...

Astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to an ancient, dead elliptical galaxy, challenging the belief that FRBs originate only in young, star-forming regions.