'None have ever been seen in such a compact group,' according to astronomer Yuxin (Vic) Dong, who worked on the team at Northwestern University studying FRB 20220610A's curious origins. 'Its birthplace is truly rare,' she said.
Alexa Gordon, who led the new study at Northwestern, agreed, adding: 'It's these types of environments, these weird ones, that are driving us toward better understanding the mystery of FRBs.'
Now, new imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that the source of this unusually strong FRB came from a 'blob-like' cluster of galaxies eight billion light-years away.
This tightly packed set of seven galaxies could prove to have been ideal conditions for an extraterrestrial species developing interstellar space travel, or an explosive pile-up of 'big galactic traffic accidents,' as astronomer Dr Stuart Ryder put it.
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