mo4ch:>Aliens phoning home? Mysterious deep-space radio signals are more frequent than we thought | Mo4ch News

A fantastically bright repeating radio signal from billions of light-years away has been discovered, only the second of its kind ever found. Scientists now believe these signals are much more common than previously thought.The signal is a fast radio burst (FRB), one of only 60 of such mysterious blips ever recorded in the past 13 years, and its repetition sheds some light on the tantalizingly mysterious origins of these millisecond-long, intense bursts. Scientists at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope were able to pinpoint its location about 1.5 billion light-years from Earth over the course of six repetitions. Like the previous repeater, detected in 2012, CHIME’s FRB rules out the possibility that the bursts are coming from “cataclysmic events.” Six bursts originating from the exact same place but taking place over several months could not emanate from the same exploding star. And the existence of a second repeater means 2012’s was not a fluke …