Re:Scientists track down the source of mysterious radio bursts
by jobu on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:53PM
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And only a single FRB source at that. These only happen a few times a year, and this is the first time they were able to pin down the source. It will be much more interesting once we know the pattern of the sources (assuming there is one).
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Re:Scientists track down the source of mysterious radio bursts
by zodPod on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:30PM
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> Scientists believe they must occur thousands of times a day, but until this most recent study, only 16 had ever been detected. They seem randomly distributed throughout the sky, and no one is sure what causes them.
They are said to happen more frequently than a few times a year. I'm guessing it's just that we are not detecting the bulk of them because they're randomly distributed.