They have a few clues to its origin..
This type of event has only been detected a few times before. And they still do not know for sure where it is from. That being said they could and are likely to be happening more frequently. However finding them is a challenge. By using new methods to pour over enormous data sets, they are making progress in observation of these types of radio signals:
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) – mysterious bursts of energy from space that appear as a short flashes of radio waves to telescopes on Earth – have baffled astronomers since they were first reported nearly a decade ago. While only 16 have ever been recorded, they believe there could be thousands of FRBs a day.
By poring over 650 hours of data from NRAO’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT), an international group of astronomers uncovered the most detailed record ever of a FRB.
Let’s find out where they think it came from on page 2
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Iconic- u can’t scoop a glass of water out of the ocean, not find a fish and assume the ocean is without life. There are more stars than grains of sand on every beach on earth. Life is out there. Don’t be naive to think we are it.
And u can believe anything the bible days about space. They had practically no technology then.
About .6 billion years before the earth formed
Interesting, but the only thing that might say is someone transmitted a signal 600 million years before earth was formed. We’ll never be able th return a message. The sun will go nova before they receive a message. Plus signal degradation we’ll make it unintelligible.
Earth has only been around for 5.4 billion years. Our first radio signals started in the 1930s. So even if it’s true it’s useless info from a race long past.
damn!
Learn to track Ghost Signals.!
Could it be that we send these signals centuries ago which get in to the black hole and came out from another black back to earth or from parallel earth
6 billion light years away…? That blows… Whoever sent it is probably LOOOOONG dead… As is there children, grand children, great great great great GREEEAAT grand children… Provided their life span is equal to ours.
I was going to read this until I realized I had to click through multiple pages.
6 billion light years is just 30 minutes away.
I think these types of pages are fishing pages just to get you to click to the next page so that they get multiple views….. I fucking hate it to… and the additional Add Suppy popups piss me up to!
Umm… 1 light year, the distance light would travel in 1 years time, is approximately 5.9 TRILLION miles… Yeah… It’s not 30minutes away.
Let’s say you walked at a rate of 20 minutes a mile. It would take you roughly 225 MILLION YEARS to walk ONE light year… 6 Billion light years is about 3.54e10 miles. (That’s like 3.5 SEPTILLION miles. not sure of the word.) It would take you an eternity to walk that far.
If there is life out there do you really think they would want to make contact with us?especially if some how they were able to observe us in our self destructive and hateful ways,Why would they want anything to do with that.And I’m sure they’re way smarted then us and they do just observe instead of recklessly sending out signals to whomever or whatever might be out there blindly hoping for the best results.
Because not all of us are mindlessly violent.
Gotta call BS. It would have to be extremelystrong. Even our own signals dissipate to static after about 1 lightyear.
Maybe it’s coming from an ancient high tech galaxy that knew that by the time it reached anyone millions or billions of years would have passed. Like a giant space monument carved in light that marks there existence in the universe. We do things like that so maybe a others have too.
How do you get 30 minutes?
Yes we are, example, you see a fight video on fb and click it to watch, that right there is us taking interest in violence, yes humans are naturally violent, if you don’t believe it, take a look at a toddler, they$#%&!@*everything up
Better late, than never!
You mean as we do
Their race is probably extinct
Or REDICULOUSLY advanced beyond all we could even begin to fatham.
Don’t tell me, there’s a war, and other people are trying to make it to our world to become citizens…
And I lose cell signal in a canyon. Lol
Peter Unstead
It was a signal from earth’s past making the return trip
What the hell
It’s from Lunopolis
Turns out it was a failed civilization…they were listening to Kanye West
What about the signal from 100 light years away tho ?
pity is anything from this far away that civilization that sent it is long dead
omg…….
More clickbait – “experts” say it’s just a Supernova or some thing.
maybe while we’re sending them “i love lucy” they’re sending us “tui zorbat glygnokroft” or something.
It’s us
So that means it was sent how long ago?
If it’s 6 billion light years away, exactly when did we set up this sensor that found it?
Lets spend 10 trillion to reply
It was a I love Lucy episode
It was playing the topgun soundtrack.
6 billion light years ago
Actually it would have taken longer than 6 billion light years because radio waves travel at near the speed of light not the speed of light.
Which (incase ya wanna know) is only
186,000 (speed c) x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 x 6,000,000,000 miles away.
Or 3.5194e+22
If my math is correct.
Wouldn’t it have some degradation after so far a distance?
Ok i stand corrected. 6 billion near light years ago. Lol
That is not how it works.. We could set up a sensor right now & pick up a signal that is 8 or 10 billion years old. Radio waves travel through space at a finite speed forever. So even if the signal left its home planet or point of origin millions or billions of years ago, it would still be traveling through the universe since the universe is infinite. We can detect how old it is with fine & very delicately precision tools. We can see how old the light is from stars that died millions of years ago but their light still travels throuh the universe.
That is not how it works.. We could set up a sensor right now & pick up a signal that is 8 or 10 billion years old. Radio waves travel through space at a finite speed forever. So even if the signal left its home planet or point of origin millions or billions of years ago, it would still be traveling through the universe since the universe is infinite. We can detect how old it is with fine & very delicately precision tools. We can see how old the light is from stars that died millions of years ago but their light still travels throuh the universe.
Ok light year=9.4607 x 10 to the 12 km or about 6 trillion miles, multiplied by 9 billion, which is 8.51463e23 km and that is the total distance light will travel in 9 billion years. Now take the speed of radio waves which is 344 km per second, through air, (unless they are electromagnetic then it would be equal the speed of light traveling in a vacuum) so in a year radio waves (non electromagnetic) travel 10,858,291,200. LY• RY = time taken by radio waves to travel 9,000,000,000 light years, in earth time (Julian Calendar) Which is 7.84159e13