Fast Radio Bursts: new intergalactic messengers

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posted on 2024-07-12, 17:43 authored by Matthew BailesMatthew Bailes

How many electrons are there in the universe? That may seem nigh on impossible to calculate - let alone comprehend - but the discovery of a new population of astrophysical events called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), published in Science today by my colleagues and I, could help provide a solution to this fundamental cosmological question.

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