Radio Signals from Another Galaxy?!

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Radio Signals from Another Galaxy?!

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 19886.html

Repeated radio signals coming from galaxy 1.5 billion light years away, scientists announce
Scientists have spotted repeated blasts of radio signals coming from deep in space.

The breakthrough is only the second time scientists have seen such a repeating radio burst. It both deepens the mystery and offers a potential opportunity to finally understand what might be throwing out the burst from a galaxy billions of light years away.

Fast radio bursts have been speculated to be the result of everything from exploding stars to transmissions from aliens. But they have remained entirely mysterious, with little evidence at all of where they might be coming from.

The flashes only last for a milisecond but they are flung out with the same amount of energy the sun takes 12 months to produce.

Probably most exciting of the new bursts is one that scientists saw repeat six times, apparently from the same location. Of the more than 60 fast radio bursts detected so far, only one of them has ever repeated.
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Re: Radio Signals from Another Galaxy?!

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Not a lot of enthousiast about that.
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Oh, great. They wanna find out how One Life to live ended.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Oh, great. They wanna find out how One Life to live ended.
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Nothing like breaking out in laughter while on the toilet at work... Thanks...

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