Mysterious Radio Burst Pinpointed to Distant Galaxy

Originally published at: Mysterious Radio Burst Pinpointed to Distant Galaxy | NVIDIA Technical Blog

For the first time, astronomers have tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), confirming these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves originate in the distant universe. Australian astronomers announced last week that they successfully used Tesla GPUs and CSIRO radio telescopes in eastern Australia and Japan’s Subaru telescope in Hawaii to…