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# space
A new simulation says that black holes are eating neutron stars and lighting up our telescopes with mysterious bursts of energy.
# space
We might not know exactly what produces mysterious fast radio bursts, but we’re finally recording enough events to point the finger at potential culprits...
# astrobiology
A new proposal posits that some of the fast radio bursts we've been routinely detecting may be coming from aliens, though not on purpose...
# science
Fast radio bursts get even more mysterious with new detections and point to a new culprit: magnetically supercharged neutron stars.
# space
While studying mysterious fast radio bursts, astronomers figured out why the universe weighs as much as it does and where that mass went.
# space
No, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, aren't microwave noodles of impatient astronomers. They're a very real phenomenon the media just can't seem to get right.
# space
The bizarre, extremely fast radio bursts astronomers have been detecting might be the result of doomed neutron stars...