Qingyue Qu

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.

The birth of a star is like cooking in a giant cosmic oven. First, an icy cloud of cosmic dust and gas contracts, and a thermonuclear fire ignites in the center, but it's still hidden behind a dense layer of 'flour'. It can only be seen in thermal rays — the dust heats up and glows, giving away the core.