For the first time, scientists have detected a radio signal from outer space that repeats at regular intervals.
Doyle RiceAn artists's conception of how ground-based telescopes detected a fast radio burst from a distant galaxy.
The repeating pattern, reports Science X Network,"suggests the source could be a celestial body of some kind orbiting around a star or another body. In such a scenario, the signals would cease when they are obstructed by the other body. "One of the greatest mysteries in astronomy right now is the origin of short, dramatic bursts of radio light seen across the universe, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs," said the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in a statement.
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