fast radio bursts
fast radio bursts is the plural of fast radio burst.
Meaning of fast radio burst
Noun
fast radio burst (plural fast radio bursts)
- A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
- This would confirm a cosmological origin of the fast radio burst, although this was disputed because the afterglow could also be caused by conventional AGN activity.2016, Günter Sigl, Astroparticle Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 571
- An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
- An object from which the phenomenon occurs.
Questions about fast radio bursts
- What is fast radio bursts the plural of?
- Fast radio bursts is the plural of fast radio burst.
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