New paper explores four nearby fast radio burst sources

Published: 11 January 2024

Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae...

Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts

Published: 26 April 2023

Astronomers from McGill University are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond...

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

Published: 13 July 2022

Astronomers at McGill University, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy, that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. Classified as...

CHIME Fast Radio Burst Team to Receive 2022 Berkeley Prize

Published: 17 November 2021

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team, which discovered more than 500 new fast radio bursts in the first year of the detector’s operations, will...

McGill launches centre for space research

Published: 28 October 2015

$1 million donation from Trottier Family Foundation to fund McGill Space Institute fellowships

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