MIT astronomers detect radio signal of record length from a galaxy far, far away

Specialists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been able to detect an unusual signal from a galaxy far, far away.

What is known

Its peculiarity lies in its duration. While ordinary radio waves of unknown origin last a few milliseconds, this signal lasted as long as three seconds, 1000 times longer than the average fast radio burst. This is a record to date.

The source is in a galaxy 1 billion light years from Earth. That's about 9.5*10²¹ kmif anyone is interested. Specialists have not been able to determine the source, but they assume the signal is emitted by a neutron star. By the way, the signal is named FRB (Fast Radio Bursts) 20191221A.

Source: phys.org