- FRB 180916 was tracked down to around 500 million light years away from Earth
- It beams a signal every hour for four days and is then silent for 12 straight days
- This unique pattern was found over 400 days of observations by CHIME
- Experts still have no idea what is behind this unique pattern and no reliable sequence has been seen for other radio bursts
Astronomers have identified the first reliable pattern of a fast radio burst (FRB) source in deep space, but still don’t know what causes the phenomenon.
Such signals have baffled scientists since their discovery in 2014, as their origin is a complete mystery.
But scientists have now found one sporadic radio burst source 500million light years away expressing a specific pattern.
It belts out a signal for a few milliseconds once every hour, every hour for four days. It then goes silent for 12 days before resuming its 16 day cycle.
This is the first time a FRB pattern has been spotted by astronomers but the underlying reasons are unknown.
However, scientists have all but ruled out alien communication as 16 days for a message would be impractical and inefficient.
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That’s a moronic assumption to make. That actually sounds like the way computers initiate a connection. They send a signal w/ time breaks multiple times to see if they’ll get a response, the way modems worked when we used them over telephone lines we randomized the number of milliseconds between retries but there is no reason it has to be that way. In fact it would be easier to do on a set schedule but you would only want to do that on a closed network not one where people keep connecting and disconnecting the way the internet worked in the 90s.
Wow! How come the US didnt figure this out ? We have all the huge array technology set up and searching for this phenomena now for decades…perhaps its just another classified finding we Americans are not “privi ” to know..