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NASA Detects Brightest Fast Radio Burst, RBFLOAT, Ever Recorded

10/27/2025

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) detects the brightest fast radio burst, named RBFLOAT, from galaxy NGC 4141.
CHIME and the Outrigger telescopes made the discovery, locating the source 130 million light-years away.
RBFLOAT released energy equivalent to sun's output over four days in a fraction of a second.
Follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest links to magnetars.
The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) detects the brightest fast radio burst, named RBFLOAT, from galaxy NGC 4141.
CHIME and the Outrigger telescopes made the discovery, locating the source 130 million light-years away.
RBFLOAT released energy equivalent to sun's output over four days in a fraction of a second.
Follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest links to magnetars.
The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.