Scientists have spotted repeated radio signals coming form deep space

Repeated Radio signals coming from deep space, scientists are wondering

Scientists are getting radio signal from space for the second time history. It both depends on the mystery and offers a potential opportunity to finally understand what might be sending out the signals from galaxy billions of light years away.

Fast radio bursts have been speculated to be the result of everything from exploding stars to transmissions from aliens, But they have remained entirely mysterious, with little evidence at all of where they might be coming from.

The flashes only last for a millisecond but they are flung out with the same amount of energy the sun takes 12 months to produce. Probably most exciting of the new bursts is one that scientists saw repeat six times, apparently from the same location. Of the more than 60 fast radio bursts detected so far, only one of them has ever repeated. 

“Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB. Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there. And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles—where they’re from and what causes them,” said Ingrid Stairs, a member of the CHIME team and an astrophysicist at UBC.