Nearest fast radio burst source is regularly active

An international team of astronomers, including a number of researchers from the Anton Pannekoek Institute, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source becomes active about every sixteen days. However, the FRB source does not burst with the exact regularity of a clock: not every active period is equally long or violent. The researchers have published their research in Nature on June 17, 2020.