Artificial Intelligence Unravels the Mysteries of Cosmic Radio Bursts ⚡ экспресс
Fast radio bursts are enigmatic signals from space. Older search methods are like trying to listen to a radio drowning in static—faint flickers get lost. The new AI model, like a keen-eared listener, spots signals directly and found three times as many bursts from a single source. It turns out the energy clusters into two steady peaks—as if a lighthouse has two unwavering flashing modes.
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-long cosmic signals. Previously, searching for them was like blindly tuning a radio dial. The EDEN neural network sees the entire frequency spread and recognizes the burst pattern like a musician reads notes. On source FRB 20121102A, it found 5,927 bursts—three times more than before.
Analysis revealed two clear energy classes: weak and powerful. This constancy points to an innate mechanism, likely in a neutron star with a strong magnetic field. Jocelyn Bell Burnell once discovered pulsars by poring over paper tape; EDEN discerned a hidden rhythm in radio data.
Each burst, in a millisecond, releases energy equal to the Sun's output over hundreds of years.
🎯 A single fast radio burst, in a thousandth of a second, emits as much energy as the Sun does in hundreds of years.
🎬 Fast radio bursts were once seriously considered signals from aliens—like in the novel 'Contact'.