A fast radio burst’s rapid, steady beat offers a clue to its cosmic origin

The three-second-long outburst was made up of a train of individual pulses

the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment in front of the night sky

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (pictured) in British Columbia detected a strange burst of cosmic radio waves made up of a train of pulses that lasted for three seconds.

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An unusual blast of radio waves from deep space had a sense of rhythm.