A sudden signal flare reveals the hidden partner behind fast radio bursts

Astronomers from an international research team, including scientists from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have found the clearest evidence so far that some fast radio bursts originate in binary star systems. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely powerful flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds and come from distant galaxies. Until now, these signals were widely thought to come from single, isolated stars.

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