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New unusual and repeating fast radio burst detected 3 billion light-years away

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The cosmic object is distinctive compared to other radio burst detections in recent years, according to new research. Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts transmit once and do not repeat. But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send short, energetic radio waves multiple times. …

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Massive and unknown radio structure detected around the brightest quasar in the universe

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Astronomers have discovered two large mysterious objects erupting from the brightest black hole in the known universe. Discovered during a 1959 survey of the cosmos radio wave sources, the supermassive black hole 3C 273 is a quasar – short for “quasi-stellar object”, because the light emitted by these behemoths is bright enough to be mistaken …

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First potential human-to-human transmission of monkeypox detected in the United States

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The first potential cases of human-to-human transmission of monkeypox in the United States this year have been detected. This weekend, four cases were spotted in total – including two in California and one each in Colorado and New York. That brings the US tally to 14 infections in eight states, with most infections in gay …

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