Astronomers Track Record-Breaking Radio Flash Across 130 Million Light-Years

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CHIME Outriggers and RBFLOATA team of astronomers spotted RBFLOAT, one of the brightest fast radio bursts ever seen, and traced it to a galaxy 130 million light-years away. Using CHIME’s new Outrigger array, researchers pinpointed its origin to a spiral arm near a star-forming region, strengthening the case for magnetars as the source of these mysterious blasts. One [...]
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