Tag: FRB 121102
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Artificial intelligence helps SETI sleuths find more radio bursts from mystery source
Researchers used artificial intelligence to search through data from a radio source, capturing many more fast radio bursts than humans could. (Breakthrough Listen Illustration / Danielle Futselaar) Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a multimillion-dollar campaign to seek out signals from alien civilizations, still don’t know exactly what’s causing repeated bursts of radio waves from an distant…
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Alien-hunting Breakthrough Listen project tracks strange series of 15 radio bursts
Intriguing radio signals have been picked up via the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. (NRAO Photo) Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million initiative aimed at stepping up the search for alien signals, says it’s picked up an intriguing series of 15 fast radio bursts emanating from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away. It’s way…