Astronomers Confirm Earth Is Being Bombarded with Ancient, Invisible Energy from Another Galaxy

[Dee Fatouros]

"Earth is being bombarded with invisible light that nobody understands." Known as fast radio bursts (or FRBs), these ultrashort, ultrapowerful pulses of ancient energy are the universe's brightest flashes you cannot see. They travel billions of light-years across time and space, shine with the intensity of nearly 100 suns and then blip out of existence mere milliseconds after reaching the range of Earthly telescopes. Because they are radio waves, they do all of this while remaining totally invisible to human eyes. Could these mystery pulses be the distant flashes of supermassive supernovas? The wild spin of the universe's speediest neutron stars? Perhaps the thrust of alien spacecraft sailing across the cosmos? Nobody knows for sure. But while only about 30 FRBs have been detected since their initial discovery in 2007, astronomers think they may be a near-constant phenomenon that modern technology isn't equipped to fully capture. [9 Strange Scientific Reasons for Why Humans Haven't Found Aliens Yet] continue:

Astronomers Confirm Earth Is Being Bombarded with Ancient, Invisible Energy from Another Galaxy

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