OKANAGAN VALLEY, CANADA — New radio waves from outer space have been detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment radio telescope, also known as CHIME.<br /><br />The findings were submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters. It described eight new repeating signals that were detected by the radio telescope.<br /><br />According to the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, these fast radio bursts, or FRBs, typically last only a few milliseconds but are able to emit more energy than 500 million suns.<br /><br />The telescope consists of four cylindrical reflectors, each of which are lined with 256 antennas. It continuously scans separate points in the sky, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, searching for FRBs, according to CHIME's website. <br /><br />In a separate study published in the journal Nature in January, CHIME had previously detected 13 fast radio bursts, only one of which was repeating.<br /><br />Researchers noticed that among the radio bursts studied, those that sent off signals multiple times tended to send out bursts that lasted a bit longer than radio bursts that only sent out signals once.<br /><br />These repeating FRBs could shed new light on the origin of these radio waves and what exactly causes them, according to the newly submitted paper.
