{"id":124947,"date":"2019-06-28T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/the-big-breakthrough-extraterrestrial-radio-signal-source-finally-pinpointed-for-1st-time\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:40:06","slug":"the-big-breakthrough-extraterrestrial-radio-signal-source-finally-pinpointed-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/the-big-breakthrough-extraterrestrial-radio-signal-source-finally-pinpointed-for-1st-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The big breakthrough: Extraterrestrial radio signal source finally pinpointed for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><code>      Astrophysicists have finally made a breakthrough, 12 years in the making, by tracing a singular fast radio burst to its origin some 3.6 billion light years away. The finding will tell us more about the composition of the universe.      \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Named FRB 180924, the singular milliseconds-long flash that contains the radio wavelengths of half-a-billion suns was <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.csiro.au\/fast-radio-burst-traced-to-a-distant-galaxy\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">captured<\/a> using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) which took 10 trillion raw measurements per second across a patch of sky. For the first time, a one-off flash \u2013impossible to predict and nearly as difficult to trace\u2013 was captured.<\/p>\n<p>Like a cosmic needle in a haystack, the team of researchers sifted through, literally, billions of measurements within the data before discovering the signal.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is the big breakthrough that the field has been waiting for since astronomers discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs) in 2007,\u201d<\/em> said astro-engineer Keith Bannister of Australia&#039;s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/News\/News-releases\/2019\/Astronomers-make-history-in-a-split-second\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>. The teams research has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2019\/06\/26\/science.aaw5903\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By measuring the delays between signals hitting the 36 ASKAP dishes, the team was able to triangulate the bursts position in two dimensions. Then three of the worlds most powerful optical telescopes were drafted in to triangulate the distance, or third dimension.<\/p>\n<p>The delay between the start and end of the burst will tell us what volume of gas the burst passed through on its way to Earth, providing more insights about the composition of the unive<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/462893-scientists-pinpoint-source-extraterrestrial-signal\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a0\/Russia-today-logo.svg\/1200px-Russia-today-logo.svg.png\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicists have finally made a breakthrough, 12 years in the making, by tracing a singular fast..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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