00:04We get a lot of mysterious signals from space, but oftentimes they're one-off bursts, fleeting rays of light or
00:10energy from distant events.
00:11But other times the signals repeat, and recently several extremely powerful fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were detected repeating from
00:19deep space.
00:20Science Alert reports these bursts in general are among the most powerful signals mankind has ever detected, with a single
00:26fast radio burst emitting the same amount of energy in just one millisecond as it takes the sun to emit
00:31over the course of three days.
00:33No one knows what causes FRBs or what might cause them to repeat, but recently astronomers discovered 25 that continued
00:39to flash over and over again.
00:41Between 2019 and 2021, FRBs are especially wild because despite not really knowing what causes them, we've detected more than
00:48a thousand of them.
00:49However, only 29 were previously found to have been repeating.
00:52What's more, there's one FRB that flashes extremely regularly, pulsing once every 16.35 days.
00:59Experts say they could be caused by neutron stars or even black holes, but the real answer is we have
01:03no idea.
01:04Which is why researchers are excitedly preparing for the Square Kilometer Array Observatory to finally be built in Australia,
01:10hopefully helping to answer some of these mysterious cosmic mysteries.
01:19So it seems like a lot of people are excited about how we're talking about doing that.
01:19What do you think about this episode and how would you have this episode, I think it's so important?
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