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MIT: Astronomers Detect Regular Rhythm of Radio Waves, With Origins Unknown
June 18, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought to be the product of small, distant, extremely dense objects, though exactly wh . . .

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