Cosmic Radio Bursts Yield First Clues About Their Origins

With the help of the world’s largest steerable radio telescope, a team of researchers that includes University of Wisconsin-Madison physicists has produced the first detailed portrait of a Fast Radio Burst – a brief but highly energetic pulse of radio waves from unknown sources in the distant universe.

-Terry Devitt, (608) 262-8282, trdevitt@wisc.edu

CONTACT: Peter Timbie, (608) 890-2002, pttimbie@wisc.edu

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