A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy -- an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with ...

The powerful burst was also traced to an unprecedented 130,000 light-years from its associated galaxy’s center, where few other stars exist. Fast radio bursts, strong pulses of energy detected ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought could produce such a signal.

The research appears in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters, in two papers: “A repeating fast radio burst source in the outskirts of a quiescent galaxy” and “The massive and quiescent ...

Astronomers added another piece to the puzzle with the detection of an FRB that seems to originate in a dead galaxy that is no ... while others seem to burst once and go silent.