"It's been known for many years that asteroids and comets impacting neutron stars can cause FRB-like signals, but until now, it was unclear if this happened often enough across the universe to explain the rate at which we observe FRBs occurring," Pham told Space.com. "We have shown that interstellar objects (ISOs), an understudied class of asteroids and comets thought to be present between stars in galaxies throughout the universe, could be numerous enough that their impacts with neutron stars could explain FRBs!"
"FRBs are hugely powerful discharges of energy emanating from the furthest reaches of outer space. They're so powerful that they can release as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun puts out in three entire days, scientists have found."
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