March 4, 2016

Aerial view of the Arecibo radio telescope (Photo H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a study following the discovery of repeating fast radio bursts. For the first time, this kind of phenomenon repeated and a team of researchers led by Laura Spitler of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, was able to identify a sequence of signals coming from the same source using the Arecibo radio telescope.