Fayin Wang

The universe is a vast orchestra playing the score of expansion. Galaxies race apart to the beat of inaudible music of dark energy. But here's the trouble: the conductor's baton held by Edwin Hubble, Adam Riess, and Vera Rubin sets two incompatible tempos.

Fast radio bursts — millisecond radio pulses arriving from distant galaxies — long remained a puzzle. Their colossal energy, compressed into instants, pointed to cataclysms on neutron stars, perhaps pulsars or magnetars.