Tau.Neutrino said:
Astronomers Have Detected the Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Seen. Still No Idea What’s Causing Them
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have been one of the more puzzling and fascinating areas of astronomical study ever since the first was detected in 2007 (known as the Lorimer Burst). Much like gravitational waves, the study of these short-lived radio pulses (which last only a few milliseconds) is still in its infancy, and only a 33 events have been detected. What’s more, scientists are still not sure what accounts for them.
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Only 33? Looks like yes. In 2011 it was estimated that 10,000 frbs may occur per day. Without looking into this in detail, 10,000 per day seems a bit excessive.
> scientists are still not sure what accounts for them.
One with origin pinned down seems the come from the supermassive black hole in a galaxy far far away.
> Repeated bursts of FRB 121102 have initiated multiple origin hypotheses. A coherent emission phenomenon known as superradiance, which involves large-scale entangled quantum mechanical states possibly arising in environments such as active galactic nuclei, has been proposed to explain these and other associated observations with FRBs (e.g. high event rate, variable intensity profiles).
“Large-scale entangled quantum mechanical states” sounds like science fiction to me.