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Why pulsars shine bright, a half-century-old mystery solved
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 16 (ANI): When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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A repeating fast radio burst from an extragalactic source detected
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.], Jan. 11 (ANI): Newly-detected bursts of radio waves indicate the presence of an environment near a massively huge black hole or inside a nebula of exceptionally extraordinary power. The unprecedentedly potent magnetic field in the source's environment could be the rea
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