Huge new catalog of ultrabright 'fast radio bursts' may shed light on the structure of the universe

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Huge new catalog of ultrabright 'fast radio bursts' may shed light on the structure of the universe. View article details on HISWAI: https://www.space.com/chime-telescope-fast-radio-burst-catalog

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As the burst signal propagates through space, it gets distorted by the very diffuse plasma that lives in the cosmos," Kiyoshi Masui, a physicist at the ...

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