Scientists Detect Mysterious Radio Signals

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The Parkes Radio Telescope has discovered all but one of the 16 known Fast Radio Bursts. ribeiroantonio/Shutterstock

Astronomers have detected five more of the mysterious events known as fast radio bursts, one of them a never-seen-before double burst. Double bursts contradict many of the proposed explanations for these events, suggesting the source may be even more exotic than we thought.