Astronomers have discovered one of the sources of the most mysterious radio signals

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Astronomers have discovered one of the sources of the most mysterious radio signals
<em>Fast radio bursts (FRB) are one of the most mysterious mysteries in the universe.</em>

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For the first time FRB 121102 signals started talking in November 2012, but scientists have taken several years to narrow down the search for their unusual nature. The most rapid radio bursts, as a rule, appeared only once, which made the calculation of their source an impossible task, but the feature of FRB 121102 was that these signals are repeated.

<strong>This gave scientists a unique opportunity to study these signals. FRBs are radio pulses with a duration of several milliseconds, but at times they have the energy of 500 million suns.</strong>

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An international group of researchers, studying data from different radio telescopes, was able to narrow the search even more narrowly and eventually reach a single conclusion

> The only known sources in our galaxy, which have the same power as the FRB 121102, twisted by a plane of polarization, are in the galactic center and are located in a very dynamic region next to a massive black hole. Perhaps the source FRB 121102 is in a similar environment in its galaxy.

- says Daniel Michilli of the University of Amsterdam.

At the same time, we still do not know what is the source of a dozen other observed radio bursts. They did not repeat, as it was with FRB 121102, so scientists suggest that FRB 121102 may be unique in its kind, while others may have different sources.
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