“It’s the most definitive pattern we’ve seen from one of these sources. “This FRB we’re reporting now is like clockwork,” says Kiyoshi Masui, assistant professor of physics in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
The astronomers observed that this 16-day pattern of fast radio bursts reoccurred consistently over 500 days of observations. The pattern begins with a noisy, four-day window, during which the source emits random bursts of radio waves, followed by a 12-day period of radio silence. This new FRB source, which the team has catalogued as FRB 180916.J0158+65, is the first to produce a periodic, or cyclical pattern of fast radio bursts. In a handful of instances, astronomers observed fast radio bursts multiple times from the same source, though with no discernible pattern. For the most part, these detections were one-offs, flashing briefly before disappearing entirely. Since the first FRB was observed in 2007, astronomers have catalogued over 100 fast radio bursts from distant sources scattered across the universe, outside our own galaxy. FRBs typically last a few milliseconds, during which time they can outshine entire galaxies. Should I even bother hearing what he has to say? It makes me upset that he would come back to tell me bad news 3 weeks later, as if the silence wasn’t loud enough of a message already.A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.įast radio bursts, or FRBs, are short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought to be the product of small, distant, extremely dense objects, though exactly what those objects might be is a longstanding mystery in astrophysics.
#Period of radio silence free#
No word yet, but I’m not really expecting to hear from him until tonight or whenever he has a free chance.Ĭan you guys give me any advice on how I should go about this? I still like him, but I had already begun the moving on process. I responded a few hours later after I got home from an Oscars viewing party. Moving on! Last night he reaches out and apologizes for the extended period of silence, and asks me how I’m doing. After a week I decided his message was pretty loud and clear, figuring he probably ghosted and was too coward to tell me anything, fine I get it.
And in my mind I’m cueing bad news already.ģ weeks pass, radio silence. I asked him if he even liked me as more than a friend bc I felt a little pushed away that night and at this point (4-5 months in) I wanted to know if a relationship was even something he was open to.
3 weeks ago we had a day time date and it started off fine, but sometime in the middle of the date I felt something shift and I couldn’t figure out why… it had been several months of this dragged out gray area dating period so after the date I decided to talk to him about it. However throughout the entire time we maintained contact and were always trying to see each other. We ended up having sex for the first time right before the holidays, so we didnt have much chance to see each other until we got back from new year’s. We really hit it off! Unfortunately, there were lulls in our dating period due to busy work schedule, out of town trips/family visits, the holidays, life, the usual. Me and this guy met in September and started going out on dates once every few weeks.
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