Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ traced back to its home galaxy for first time ever
An animation shows the random appearance of fast radio bursts (FRBs) across the sky. Astronomers have discovered about 85 since 2007, and pinpointed two of them. Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Three and a half billion years ago, a mysterious object on the edge of a distant galaxy spewed forth an intensely