Space is full of mystery and everyday numerous events keep on taking place in the endless region of space. Recently a team of astronomers said that they were successful in finding the Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

Since the time when FRBs were discovered for the first time nearly a decade ago, these cosmic radio waves have been puzzling scientists. FRBs appear to come from the distant universe, but so far researchers were successful in gathering very few details about them.

The team associated with the finding said they uncovered an FRB after deeply studying the data from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) for more than 650 hours.

The team said they found the newly identified FRB, dubbed FRB 110523, with the help of advance software developed by Masui and his colleague Jonathan Sievers from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

The findings of their study reveal that the FRB they found originated inside a highly magnetized region of space, possibly linking it to a recent supernova or the interior of an active star-forming nebula.

Kiyoshi Masui, an astronomer with the University of British Columbia and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, said, “We now know that the energy from this FRB passed through a dense magnetized region shortly after it formed. This significantly narrows down the source’s environment and type of event that triggered the burst”.

As per experts, FRBs last for only a few seconds but they release high amounts of energy. So far, very few FRBs have been documented. Some astronomers believe that the observable universe everyday hosts thousands of these events.