The discovery was made possible by reevaluating public data regarding Fast Radio Bursts collected by the Green Bank Telescope as part of the Breakthrough Listen project.
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy examines the discovery of what astronomers are dubbing "ultra-fast radio bursts", a new type of fast radio bursts (FRBs) that the team determined lasts for a mind-boggling ten millionths of a second or less.