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Last week, astronomers managed to trace a mysterious, fleeting radiosignal back to a distant galaxy. Since then, teams from around the worldhave tracked down ten more.The latest was spotted by a team at CalTech’s Owens Valley RadioObservatory on Tuesday, according to CNET. Astronomers aren’t positivewhat’s causing these so-called “Fast Radio Burstsö — there are severalplausible non-extraterrestrial-life-related explanations. But theserecent signals are a sign that intergalactic radio broadcasts are farmore common than scientists previously thought.The radio burst detected at CalTech originated from a galaxy 8 billionlight-years away from our own according to research published in thejournal Nature — that’s twice the distance that the first radio burstdetected last week traveled.That means that whatever gave off the signal, whether it was activitywithin a neutron star or potentially some sort of alien life, did sobillions of years before our planet even formed. But because thesesignals are popping up more frequently than ever, astronomers believethey could finally find the culprit.“Astronomers have been chasing FRBs for a decade now, and we’re finallydrawing a bead on them,ö CalTech astronomer Vikram Ravi told CNET. “Nowwe have a chance of figuring out just what these exotic objects mightbe.ö
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