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Fast radio bursts could help solve the mystery of the universe’s expansion

There’s a new player in cosmology’s biggest debate

illustration of fast radio burst from magnetic star

Short-lived bursts of radio waves from deep space, possibly from eruptions on magnetic stars (one illustrated), are now being used to measure the expansion of the universe.

ESA

By Mara Johnson-Groh

- More than 2 years ago

Astronomers have been arguing about the rate of the universe’s expansion for nearly a century.