A telescope in Canada has found a source of mysterious fast radio bursts that repeats every 16 days, according to a new paper. It’s the first regularly repeating fast radio burst known to science.
The true identity of last week’s purported neutron star-black hole merger may never be known, as follow-up searches for a source of the signal have turned up nothing.
In 2017, observatories around the world observed a high-energy collision between a pair of dense objects, each slightly more massive than the Sun but only the size of a city. A similar collision closer to home could have been responsible for producing some of the heaviest elements in our own…