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Over a thousand cosmic explosions traced to mysterious repeating fast radio burst - CNN
Oct 14, 2021 44 secs
But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short, energetic radio waves multiple times.

Scientists think the bursts could originate from the magnetic field of magnetars.

FRB 121102 was the first repeating fast radio burst to be traced back to its source, linked back to a small dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light-years away in 2017.

This could help scientists learn more about the potential source of fast radio bursts.

Fast radio bursts were only discovered in 2007, followed by the discovery that some of them can repeat in 2016.

The Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey has helped find six new fast radio bursts, including a repeating one like FRB 121102.

"As the world's largest antenna, FAST's sensitivity proves to be conducive to revealing intricacies of cosmic transients, including FRBs," said lead study author Li Di, a professor at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a statement.

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