Fast Radio Burst Mystery May have been Solved

In 2012 astronomers discovered a Fast radio burst which unlike others that had been detected repeated , the repetition of the phenomena continued and gave them the opportunity to delve further into the mystery and try to discover the cause of the massive radio bursts , estimated to generate the power of 500 million suns in very short bursts.

Because most of them burst once and never return, they are impossible to predict, and impossible to trace. This is one of the main reasons why we don't know what causes them. But FRB 121102 has proved to be exceptional.
In March 2016, researchers announced they'd found 10 other bursts from the same location in archival data. Then in December 2016, 6 bursts were detected from FRB 121102; then 15 more in August 2017.
This allowed researchers to locate the source of these signals - a star-forming region in a dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light-years from Earth.

Their research has led them to conclude that the Fast Radio Bursts are produced by a Neutron Star in a crazy environment probably close to a black hole or located in a very powerful nebula.

The radio signals of FRB 121102 are almost completely polarised. When these polarised signals travel through a magnetic field, they become twisted - the stronger the field, the greater the twist. This is called Faraday rotation, and it allows researchers to learn more about the waves' origin.

In the case of FRB 121102, the twisting of the signals' polarisation is some of the greatest ever observed, which means they had to pass through a very intense magnetic field.

"The only known sources in our galaxy that are twisted as much as FRB 121102 are in the Galactic Centre, which is a dynamic region near a massive black hole. Maybe FRB 121102 is in a similar environment in its host galaxy," said PhD candidate Daniele Michilli of the University of Amsterdam and ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.
"However, the twisting of the radio bursts could also be explained if the source is located in a powerful nebula or supernova remnant."
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Not Alien signals after all then.

I have to suspect that there is more to this story than meets the eye... Mainstream Science is always quick to come up with an explanation for why something is out of place.

originally posted by: FoxStriker
I have to suspect that there is more to this story than meets the eye... Mainstream Science is always quick to come up with an explanation for why something is out of place.

isn't that a scientists job? examining all available data and come up with the most logical likely answer based on that data set?

It'll never be aliens.
Guess the universe is just too big.

I thought maybe it was an intergalactic fax signal. Time to move on I guess.

originally posted by: ItCameFromOuterSpace
It'll never be aliens.

Guess the universe is just too big.

Never give up hope , given the amount of ears we have pointed at the sky it could happen any day.
We will find them.

Nice! One more little step in the understanding-of-the-human-race-about-the-universe's scale.

Maybe the universe is really that big for us to find any aliens, but don't lose faith... We'll find them.

If not, then we'll most likely become them.