Astronomers watched 35 explosive outbursts from a rare repeating “fast radio burst” (FRB) as it shifted in frequency like a “cosmic slide whistle,” blinking in a puzzling pattern never seen before.
FRBs are millisecond-long flashes of light from beyond the Milky Way that are capable of producing as much energy in a few seconds as the sun does in a year. FRBs are believed to come from powerful objects like neutron stars with intense magnetic fields — also called magnetars — or from cataclysmic events like stellar collisions or the collapse of neutron stars to form black holes. Complicating the FRB picture, a few FRBs are “repeaters” that flash from the same spot in the sky more than once, while the majority burst once and then vanish.
I don’t know or care to speculate what it could be with my limited knowledge of astrophysics. However it’s awesome how many strange things are still out there.
I completely agree.
Right? The James Webb has taken a lot of what we assumed and just yeeted it out the window, and made me realize how little we yet know about the universe.
It’s never a cosmic slide whistle until you’ve ruled out everything else. This could be interference from Dee-Lite. It could be Sixpence None the Richer. It could be aliens with a regular slide whistle but using an amplifier to make it seem like a cosmic slide whistle.
Those darn alien pranksters are ruining the cosmic slide whistle research! 😡
Everywhere Bootsy Collins goes, cosmic hijinks are sure to follow.
A alien hunting telescope picking up something that defines explanations, is sort of what I expected from alien hunting telescope news, to be honest.
But it is cool nevertheless.
It’s never aliens… until it is.
Everyone has a plan until aliens punch them in the face
- Alien Mike Tyson
You missed the opportunity to cite “Mike Dyson”
Damnit! I knew there was something good in there! Well done you!
Shhh. Go edit it, and we can delete this sidebar. 🤙🏼
Nah, this is more fun. Someone literally just clicked “show more comments” and read this stupid exchange, thus wasting a tiny bit more of their life. Betcha feel kinda foolish now, you literate fuck, all knowing how to read shit. Yeah, read this sentence too, you’ll never get these two seconds back either.
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A couple of posts back on my feed was about nasa sending a video of a cat via a laser beam. Can’t help thinking they’ve been intergallactically rick-rolled!
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That would be the coolest.
I am hoping, however, that this is just some dumb shit we did echoing back.
