FRB UPDATE Part 1: Yeah, So About that Fast Radio Burst...

Recently, I wrote about an exciting astronomical discovery: The location and distance of a Fast Radio Burst (or FRB), a tremendous cosmic flash of radio-wave energy. Quite a few of these have been detected, but they last literally for milliseconds, making it extremely difficult to nail down their position (and, hopefully, their distance). In April 2015 an FRB went off, and some very fast work by astronomers nailed the position of it by finding the fading glow from the event. It was found to over...