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What makes a radio burst?
Fast radio bursts are incredibly powerful, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves from space. Their exact cause is still a mystery, but scientists believe they could be from highly magnetised neutron stars, black holes, or even collisions between dense objects. Unravelling their origins helps us understand the early universe, like with FRB 20240304B.
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