Scientists Detect Record-Breaking Radio Signal from the Ancient Universe– www.404media.co

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spotted a blast from the past, opened a portal between realms, yakked it up, and rose from the ashes.

First, scientists have spotted a mysterious radio signal from the primordial universe that could illuminate cosmic evolution (it’s not aliens… sorry). Then: a diamond in the quantum rough, the decline of a fine bovine line, and a second-generation planet.

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away 

Caleb, Manisha et al. “A fast radio burst at redshift 2, three billion years after the Big Bang.” Science.

Scientists have discovered the most distant fast radio burst (FRB), a type of mysterious radio flare from space. This burst erupted when the universe was only three billion years old and sent radio waves across 10 billion light years before they reached Earth on March 4, 2024.