Astronomers discover a signal that sounds like heart attacks from a galaxy billions of light years from Earth

By Space. comAs Periscope follows, the discovery can help astronomers finally determine the source of rapid waves explosions (FRB).

Most of the FRBs, which are strong explosions of radio waves from the galaxies billions of light years away, last only a few milliseconds and are successive events.

This new signal It lasts up to three seconds, making it 1,000 times the average of the FRB, and also has the clearest repeated model discovered so far.

As it is supposed, a rapid radio explosion (FRB) is a passing radio pulse ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to several milliseconds, caused by a high energy astrophysic process, not yet understood.

“was unusual”, said scholar Daniele Milchill of the Kalvali Institute of Technology in Massachusetts (MIT) for Astrophysics and Space Research in a statement.

Not only was it too long, it lasted about three seconds, but there were periodic peaks that were extremely precise, releasing every fraction of a second boom, boom, boom boom like a heartbeat. This is the first time the signal itself is periodical”.

The team standing behind the discovery of this intense and repeated explosion includes researchers from “Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experition (CHIME)/ FRB Colaboration”.

Furthermore, researchers will try to catch further explosions from the same source that may help to find out finally what is causing these FRBs.

Moreover, they hope that the FRB 20191221A can be used as a type of <x0.0 astrophysicora” thanks to its highly reliable periodicity. Since the frequency of this explosion will change as the source leaves the earth, changes can be used to measure the expansion of the universe.

Since their first discovery in 2007, FRBs have been a mystery to astronomers who have been able to track these explosions in their galaxy of origin, but have not discovered the exact source of emissions.