A study suggests that some planets may emit a loud blast of radio waves when they die.
In a new interview with Science News, Yong-Feng Huang talked about a recent study that suggests crumbling planets may account for some of the new discoveries.
The first of their kind was detected in archival observatory data in 2007, and until that time, Astronomers didn't know about FRBs, which are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves that have yet to be explained.
Scientists have been puzzled as they try to figure out what causes these mysterious radio bursts as they continue to pile up, and this new theory offers an intriguing new possibility.
According to the research, the result of interacting with the planets could be FRBs. The idea is that when these planets get close to the stars, they start getting ripped apart, resulting in chunks falling off.
The researchers theorize that the stellar wind of particles and radiation may interact with them and result in strong radio emissions.
One of the two known repeaters was discovered in 2016 and repeats every 16 days. The planet destruction hypothesis could explain both of the FRBs that the team studied.
The concept of it being a stellar scream of radio waves certainly does, but there is still a long way to go.
There are planets that might cause repeating fast radio bursts.
Scientists are puzzled by an object sending radio signals every 18 minutes from deep space.
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