BEIJING: Astronomers have recently discovered a new fast radio burst (FRB), mysterious signals believed to be from the distant universe, with the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built.
An international team led by scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) made the discovery by analysing the data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST).
FRBs are the brightest bursts known in the universe.
They are called “fast” because these blips are very short, only several milliseconds in duration.
But there is no reasonable explanation for their origin yet.
By using his own novel search method incorporating deep-learning artificial intelligence, Zhu Weiwei, an astronomer at NAOC, found the new burst, coded FRB 181123, from the massive survey data of FAST, which started regular operations this year. — Xinhua
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