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Bursts of radio waves in space may be from cores of dead stars – ABC News
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Astronomers have spotted a handful of extremely intense and brief blasts of radio waves since 2007 but have yet to pin down exactly what’s creating them. The blasts have fueled all sorts of speculation about their origins, from exploding or colliding stars to alien civilizations.
Now the speculation soon may be resolved, with three teams of scientists finally finding a clear and plausible source for the puzzling pulses, known as “fast radio bursts,” or FRBs. Using…
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