A single object ripped out over 1,600 Fast Radio Bursts in just a few days and no one knows why

Let's cut right to the chase, shall we? No one knows what causes Fast Radio Bursts, intense but extremely short blasts of radio waves. By "intense" I mean pouring out possibly millions of times the energy the Sun does, and by "short" I mean short: they literally last a millisecond or so. A thousandth of a second.

The first ones detected (in the early 2000s) were one-and-done, flashing once and then disappearing. A breakthrough occurred in 2016 when a Fast Radio Burst (or FRB) that went off firs...