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It came from a galaxy far, far away.
A single, sudden burst of radio waves. And then it was gone.
The so-called ‘Lorimer’ burst was spotted in 2007 — and has been baffling scientists ever since.
“This is something that’s completely unprecedented,” Duncan Lorimer, the West Virginia University astrophysicist who made the discovery told Space at the time.
Today, the ‘burst’ is not alone. Indeed, four more identical flares have been observed, according to Popular Mechanics.
“You have to look at the sky for a very long time to find these,” British astrophysicist Dan Thornton, who observed the fresh, fleeting bursts, told the magazine. “The reason that we’re detecting them now is we’ve simply looked long enough.”
Thornton and his University of Manchester team published their findings in Science magazine, noting “the bursts’ properties indicate that they are of celestial rather than terrestrial origin.”
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