Scientists track where intense radio signals from space are coming from - and are shocked by what they find

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have tracked an intense radio signal coming from deep in space to its origin – and been left shocked by what they found. For years, researchers have been looking to explain fast radio bursts, or FRBs, which are very short and very powerful blasts energy coming from deep in space. Instead of a young galaxy, it was coming from one 11.3 billion years old and just two billion light years from Earth. The work is described in two new papers, ‘A repeating fast radio burst source in the outskirts of a quiescent galaxy” and “The massive and quiescent elliptical host galaxy of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 20240209A’, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.