Eight ultra-fast bursts lasted only ten millionths of a second or less
An international team of researchers have discovered radio pulses from the distant universe that last only millionths of a second. They found these microsecond bursts after a meticulous examination of archival data from the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope. It’s unclear how the ultrafast bursts were created. The researchers published their findings in Nature Astronomy.
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Astronomers find multiple microsecond-length fast radio bursts in GBT data
