Mujumat@lemmy.worldM to Everything Science@lemmy.world · 1 year agoMysterious fast radio burst traveled 8 billion years to reach Earth | CNNwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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minus-squareAnticorplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIs it a pulsar? Usually these things turn out to be pulsars.
minus-squareniktemadur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAt a distance of 8 billion light years, I don’t think an object the size of a pulsar can emit a signal energetic enough to travel that far and still have enough juice to be picked up by sensors on Earth.
Is it a pulsar? Usually these things turn out to be pulsars.
At a distance of 8 billion light years, I don’t think an object the size of a pulsar can emit a signal energetic enough to travel that far and still have enough juice to be picked up by sensors on Earth.