Kiyoshi Masui

Astronomers have tied the origin of Fast Radio Bursts - brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves - to a highly magnetised, gas-filled region of space, providing a new hint in the decade-long quest to explain the mysterious radio pulses.

Astronomers have tied the origin of Fast Radio Bursts - brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves - to a highly magnetised, gas-filled region of space, providing a new hint in the decade-long quest to explain the mysterious radio pulses.