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A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepen­ing a Mystery | Quanta Magazine

After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies.

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Hasnain says:

"“It’s like making a movie of the sky at 200 frames per second,” said Chatterjee, who is one of the collaboration’s leaders. “And we made this movie over 10 hours and we saw absolutely nothing.”"

Posted on 2018-03-24T20:40:26+0000