A repeating Fast Radio Burst from a spiral galaxy

Telescopes in the European VLBI Network (EVN) have observed a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) in a spiral galaxy similar to our own. This FRB is the closest to Earth ever localised and was found in a radically different environment to previous studies. The discovery, once again, changes researchers’ assumptions on the origins of these mysterious extragalactic events.


A full copy of the paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-18...



Image references for FRBs that appear in the video:

Lorimer Burst: Lorimer et al. 2007, Science, 318, 777
FRB121102: Chatterjee et al. 2017, Nature, 541, 58
FRB180916: Marcote et al. 2019, Nature (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-18...)
FRB180924: Bannister et al. 2019, Science, 365, 565
FRB181112: Prochaska et al. 2019, Science, 366, 231
FRB190523: Ravi et al. 2019, Nature, 572, 352