Hubble Space Telescope reveals curious birthplace of record-breaking blast. Fast radio burst (FRB) is the most powerful, most distant to date Astronomers find FRB originated not in one galaxy but a group of galaxies on the path to a possible merger In the summer of 2022, astronomers detec
The humble Hubble Space Telescope has been instrumental in detecting something remarkable: the strongest and oldest radio wave transmission ever recorded. A Northwestern University press release about the research explains that the energetic transmission, known to nerds as a "fast radio burst" or FRB, was first discovered 18 months ago by the Australian Square Kilometre […]
A Northwestern-led team of astronomers reached for the stars with a recently compiled gamma-ray galaxy database. The public database, known as BRIGHT, or the Broad-band Repository for Investigating Gamma-ray burst Host galaxies Traits, details 84 galaxies known to originate short gamma-ray bursts. Short gamma-ray bursts, or SGRBs, are explosions of energy theorized to be generated.