/channels/taxonomy/term/14112/all en /channels/channels/news/new-paper-explores-four-nearby-fast-radio-burst-sources-354136 <p>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 are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.</p> Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:51:21 +0000 webfull 196324 at /channels /channels/channels/news/doubling-number-sources-repeating-fast-radio-bursts-348060 <p>Astronomers from ƻ����Ժ 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 the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.</p> Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:46:18 +0000 webfull 189353 at /channels /channels/channels/news/astronomers-detect-radio-heartbeat-billions-light-years-earth-340332 <p>Astronomers at ƻ����Ժ, 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 a fast radio burst, or FRB, this new signal persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB. Within this window, the team detected bursts of radio waves that repeat every 0.2 seconds in a clear periodic pattern.</p> Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:43:06 +0000 webfull 180910 at /channels /channels/channels/news/chime-fast-radio-burst-team-receive-2022-berkeley-prize-334995 <p>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 receive the 2022 <a href="https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/lancelot-m-berkeley-new-york-community-trust-prize-meritorious-work-astronomy">Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy</a>.</p> Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:28:34 +0000 webfull 174904 at /channels /channels/news/astrophysicist-vicky-kaspi-wins-top-cdn-science-prize-258612 <p><strong><em>By Chris Chipello, </em></strong><em><a href="/newsroom"><strong>ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</strong></a></em></p> <p><em>ƻ����Ժ researchers Elena Bennett and Yasser Gidi also honoured by NSERC</em></p> <p>The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has named ƻ����Ժ astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi as this year’s recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, NSERC’s highest honour, in recognition of the excellence and influence of her research contributions.</p> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:21:14 +0000 webfull 116106 at /channels /channels/news/mcgill-launches-centre-space-research-256392 <p>$1 million donation from Trottier Family Foundation to fund ƻ����Ժ Space Institute fellowships Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:30:10 +0000 webfull 113592 at /channels /channels/channels/event/fast-radio-sky-lecture-2015-canada-council-killam-prize-natural-sciences-laureate-professor-victoria-257315 <p><strong>Location: Tanna Schulich Hall, 527 Sherbrooke Street West</strong></p> <p> </p> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:17:27 +0000 webfull 114608 at /channels