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Scientists have been puzzled with short bursts of cosmic radio waves called Fast Radio Bursts coming from an unidentified source in the space ever since the first one on record was detected in 2001. The FRBs last just a few milliseconds but register about a billion times brighter than anything ever observed in the galaxy. The first fast radio burst ...

Astronomers have been puzzled to locate the origin of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), dubbed FRB 110523, that could have been no more than six billion light years from Earth. These radio signals could have emerged from a highly magnetized, gas-filled region of space, providing a new hint in the decade-long mystery over radio pulses received from inner space. “We ...