Astronomers estimate that the mysterious signal came from a galaxy roughly a billion light-years away.
Astronomers estimate that the signal came from a galaxy roughly a billion light-years away, but the exact location and cause of the burst is unknown. A study detailing the findings published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
People are also reading… Fast radio bursts are so quick and unexpected that they're difficult to observe. Astronomers using CHIME spotted something on December 21, 2019, that immediately caught their attention: a fast radio burst that was"peculiar in many ways," according to Daniele Michilli, a postdoctoral researcher in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Michilli was monitoring the data as it came in from CHIME, when the burst occurred. The signal is the longest-lasting fast radio burst to date. An unknown sourceThe research team doesn't know the exact galaxy from which the burst originated and even the distance estimate of a billion light-years is"highly uncertain," Michilli said. While CHIME is primed to search for bursts of radio waves, it's not as good at locating their origin points.
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