An artist's illustration depicts the CHIME's Outrigger array tracing RBFLOAT to its host galaxy. - Daniëlle Futselaar/MMT Observatory Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are some of the universe’s most mysterious signals — immense flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds but can outshine every other radio source in their galaxy.

(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, ...

“With the CHIME Outriggers, we are finally catching these fleeting cosmic signals in the act — narrowing down their locations not only to individual galaxies, but even to specific stellar environments ...