Astronomers are getting closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of radio waves originating from outside the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second as it takes the Sun three days to emit.

However, despite their power and the fact that up to 10,000 FRBs can erupt in the skies above Earth every day, these blasts of radio waves remain mysterious. One of ...