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    Astronomers pinpoint the location of the brightest fast radio burst to date

    September 25, 2025, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Artist’s rendition of CHIME/FRB and its Outriggers localizing FRB 20250316A/ RBFLOAT.
    Artist’s rendition of CHIME/FRB and its Outriggers localizing FRB 20250316A/ RBFLOAT. Inset: The host galaxy (NGC 4141) as imaged by MMT Observatory (PI: Yuxin (Vic) Dong), illustrating the location of the FRB within a spiral arm of NGC 4141.Photo credit: Daniëlle Futselaar/MMT Observatory.

    An international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto, have detected the brightest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to date—and have been able to pinpoint its location in a nearby galaxy by using a network of radio telescopes.

    FRBs are extremely energetic flashes from distant sources from across the universe that are caused by extreme astrophysical phenomena...

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