20 Oct 2023

An international team of researchers has discovered radio pulses that last only millionths of a second. With this, the team – led by Dutch Ph.D candidate Mark Snelders (ASTRON and University of Amsterdam) – have proven that previously discovererd fast radio bursts (FRBs) can last even shorter than a thousandth of a second, giving life to the term ‘ultra-fast radio bursts’.

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Artist's impression of the discovery of microsecond bursts. (c) Daniëlle Futselaar/www.artsource.nl