A Mysterious, Powerful Force Is Flinging Radio Waves at Us from Deep Space

[Judi Lynn]

By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | August 3, 2018 03:53pm ET

Our universe is teeming with invisible light. Beyond the visible spectrum, space is a colorful mess of radio signals and microwaves fired off by flaring "suns," collapsing stars, crackling magnetic fields, roiling dust clouds and seething black holes.

Then, there's the light nobody understands — mysterious, ultrastrong sparks of energy zipping billions of light-years across the universe from unknown origins, for unknown reasons.

Puzzling pulses like these are sometimes called fast radio bursts (FRBs), because they may last just a few milliseconds. On the morning of July 25, one such burst of mysterious energy whizzed past a new array of radio telescopes nestled in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, registering one of the rarest radio frequencies ever detected. [7 Everyday Things That Happen Strangely in Space]

According to a statement released in The Astronomer's Telegram (a bulletin board of astronomical observations posted by accredited scientists), the mystery signal — named FRB 180725A after the year, month and day it was detected — transmitted in frequencies as low as 580 megahertz, nearly 200 MHz lower than any other FRBs ever detected.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/63254-mystery-frb-detected-canada.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The source is obvious.

[marylandblue]

2. I like the mysteries that could be extraterrestrial intelligence

In this case, I suspect we are detecting warp drive signatures.

[cstanleytech]

7. Unlikely as if such a drive created such a thing the odds are we would

be seeing it more often.
No, the odds favor it being something else that is natural but rare.

[marylandblue]

8. Ah but maybe we can only detect the largest, fastest ships.

And there aren't many of those.

[cstanleytech]

9. Any space faring race that had such ships at all would more likely than not would be

using alot of them to ship goods between star systems.

[MontanaMama]

3. Maybe there's an orange race

of aliens who are attempting to beam up the Dotard. Let it be. 💫

[magicarpet]

4. God is attempting to warn us about the grave dangers of trDump.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

5. The cosmos are filled with astounding mysteries, even better than science fiction.

Thanks for posting this.

[lapfog_1]

6. Every once in a while

I sometimes think that a large Gamma Ray Burst should hit our poor pathetic planet and sterilize the fuck out of it...

and in a few more millions of years, life might regenerate here. Or even faster if the cockroaches somehow survive.