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Astronomers have traced the signal of an enigmatic repeating fast radio burst for only the second time – and it’s in a spiral galaxy similar to our own, not so far away.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts emit once and don’t repeat. Repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short energetic radio waves multiple times.
Multiple individual fast radio bursts in past years have been traced back to their sources in other galaxies, although those have yet to shed light on what created them.
But this newly discovered repeating FRB has a different source from the first one that was found in 2019, deepening the mystery of how these radio waves are created.
This illustration shows a massive star on the brink of explosion.
Chuck Carter/Caltech
Meet the fastest asteroid in our solar system, which zips around the sun every 113 days. This artist's rendering shows the asteroid 2021 PH27 (top right) and Mercury (below) orbiting the sun.
CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
A ghostly set of X-ray rings were found around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes.
CXC/U.Wisc-Madison/S. Heinz et al./Pan-STARRS/NASA
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, shows the PDS 70 system 400 light-years away. This planetary system is still forming and still in the process of being formed. One of the planets in the system has a moon-forming disk around it.
ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/Benisty et al.
This image shows supernova 2018zd (pictured as the large white dot on the right), a new type of supernova called an electron capture. To the left is the galaxy NGC 2146.
NASA/STSCI/J. Depasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory
This image from the STARFORGE simulation shows the "Anvil of Creation," a giant gas cloud with individual stars forming inside of it.
From Northwestern University/UT Austin
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and discovered titanium, shown in light blue, blasting out of it. The colors represent other elements detected, like iron (orange), oxygen (purple), silicon (red) and magnesium (green).
T. Sato et al./RIKEN/CXC/NASA
The supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, the first to ever be imaged, can now be seen in polarized light. Swirling lines reveal the magnetic field near the edge of the black hole.
European Southern Observatory
This image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shows the galaxy J0437+2456, which includes a supermassive black hole at its center that appears to be moving.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
This artist's impression shows how the distant quasar P172+18 and its radio jets may have looked 13 billion years ago. The light from the quasar has taken that long to reach us, so astronomers observed the quasar as it looked in the early universe.
M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory
This image shows the vicinity of the Tucana II ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, captured by the SkyMapper telescope.
Anirudh Chiti/MIT
These images show two giant radio galaxies found with using the MeerKAT telescope. The red in both images shows the radio light being emitted by the galaxies against a background of the sky as it is seen in visible light.
I. Heywood/Oxford/Rhodes/SARAO
This artist's conception of quasar J0313-1806 depicts it as it was 670 million years after the Big Bang. Quasars are highly energetic objects at the centers of galaxies, powered by black holes and brighter than entire galaxies.
NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
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Zolt Levay/Space Telescope Science Institute
This artist's impression of the distant galaxy ID2299 shows some of its gas being ejected by a "tidal tail" as a result of a merger between two galaxies.
M. Kornmesser/ESO
This diagram shows the two most important companion galaxies to the Milky Way: the Large Magellanic Cloud (left) and the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was made using data from the European Space Agency Gaia satellite.
Laurent Chemin/ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The Blue Ring Nebula is thought to be a never-before-seen phase that occurs after the merger of two stars. Debris flowing out from the merger was sliced by a disk around one of the stars, creating two cones of material glowing in ultraviolet light.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Seibert/K. Hoadley/GALEX Team
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, in the constellation of Orion, experienced unprecedented dimming late in 2019. This image was taken in January using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.
ESO/M. Montargès et al.
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European Southern Observatory
An artist's illustration, left, helps visualize the details of an unusual star system, GW Orionis, in the Orion constellation. The system's circumstellar disk is broken, resulting in misaligned rings around its three stars.
ESO/L. Cal?ada, Exeter/Kraus et al.
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N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno, MPIGP, SXS Collaboration
This artist's illustration shows the unexpected dimming of the star Betelgeuse.
ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
This extremely distant galaxy, which looks similar to our own Milky Way, appears like a ring of light.
Rizzo et al./ALMA/European Southern Observatory
This artist's interpretation shows the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. The orange represents the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple reveals gas shed by the star right before the explosion.
Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University
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Northwestern University
This radar image captured by NASA's Magellan mission to Venus in 1991 shows a corona, a large circular structure 120 miles in diameter, named Aine Corona.
From NASA/JPL
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Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
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International Gemini Observatory/K. Paterson/W. Fong/Northwestern University
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy 60 million light-years away. Due to the expansion of the universe, the galaxy appears to be moving away from the Milky Way at an accelerate rate.
Hubble Space Telescope/NASA/ESA/M. Stiavelli
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L. Cal?ada/ESO
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Robert Hurt/California Institute of Technology
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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration
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Kristi Mickaliger
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ICRAR
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Giacomo Terreran/Northwestern University
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James Josephides/Swinburne Astronomy Productions
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NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello
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ESO/Boccaletti et al.
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European Southern Observatory/ESO/L. Cal?ada
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NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al./CXC/M. Weiss
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M. Kornmesser/ESA/NASA
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NRAO/AUI/NSF/S. Dagnello
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European Southern Observatory/ESO/L. Cal?ada
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M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
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Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble
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Gabriel Pérez Díaz/Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands
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University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
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S. Giacintucci, et al./NRL/CXC/NASA
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ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light. The red represents hot gas, while the blue regions are interstellar dust.
JPL-Caltech/NASA
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NASA/L. Hustak
This image shows the orbits of the six G objects at the center of our galaxy, with the supermassive black hole indicated with a white cross. Stars, gas and dust are in the background.
Anna Ciurlo/Tuan Do/UCLA Galactic Center Group
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NASA/W. Sparks (STScI)/R. Sahai
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NASA
Galaxy UGC 2885, nicknamed the "Godzilla galaxy," may be the largest one in the local universe.
NASA/ESA/B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)
The host galaxy of a newly traced repeating fast radio burst acquired with the 8-meter Gemini-North telescope.
Danielle Futselaar/artsource.nl
Wonders of the universe
The source of the new repeating FRB, known as 180916.J0158+65, was observed by the global effort of eight ground-based telescopes, which pinpointed the location in a galaxy half a billion light-years from Earth. While that sounds incredibly distant, it’s seven times closer than the other repeating radio burst and more than 10 times closer than non-repeating FRBs that have been traced.
“The FRB is among the closest yet seen, and we even speculated that it could be a more conventional object in the outskirts of our own galaxy,” said Mohit Bhardwaj, study co-author and McGill University doctoral student. “However, the observation proved that it’s in a relatively nearby galaxy, making it still a puzzling FRB but close enough to now study using many other telescopes.”
The study published Monday in the journal Nature, and its findings were presented at the 235th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu.
The first repeating fast radio burst traced, FRB 121102, linked back to a small dwarf galaxy containing stars and metals.
“The multiple flashes that we witnessed in the first repeating FRB arose from very particular and extreme conditions inside a very tiny [dwarf] galaxy,” said Benito Marcote, lead study author from the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, which turns a globalnetwork of telescopes into a single observatory. “This discovery represented the first piece of the puzzle but it also raised more questions than it solved, such as whether there was a fundamental difference between repeating and non-repeating FRBs. Now, we have localized a second repeating FRB, which challenges our previous ideas on what the source of these bursts could be.”
On June 19, 2019, the joint institute tuned in to the repeating fast radio burst, which was initially discovered by Canada’s CHIME telescope in 2018. Over five hours, the telescopes detected four bursts that lasted less than two thousandths of a second.
They used a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry to combine the power of the telescopes and use them as one to pinpoint the FRB’s location to a region that was seven light-years across. The astronomers compared that ability to someone standing on Earth being able to recognize someone on the moon.
Not only does this new repeating fast radio burst differ from the other traced repeating one, but from all fast radio bursts ever traced.
“The differences between repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts are thus less clear, and we think that these events may not be linked to a particular type of galaxy or environment,” said Kenzie Nimmo, study co-author and PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. “It may be that FRBs are produced in a large zoo of locations across the universe and just require some specific conditions to be visible.”
The repeating fast radio burst was traced to one of the spiral arms of a Milky Way-esque galaxy. It was also within a star-forming region of the arm, the researchers said.
Learning more about the host galaxy of the burst can tell astronomers about the environment from which these originate and, ultimately, unravel the big mystery of what creates them. Given the fact that this one is closer than the others, astronomers will observe it more in the future.
Understanding fast radio bursts can also help astronomers learn more about the universe itself. The more bursts they can trace, the better they may be able to use the signals to map how matter is distributed across the universe.