Mysterious Radio Bursts, Sent From Deep Space
8:21 minutes
Reporting in Science, researchers write of discovering four radio bursts from outer space. Physicist Duncan Lorimer, who detected the first such explosion in 2007, discusses what could be causing these radio signals, such as evaporating black holes, an idea proposed by Stephen Hawking in the 1970s.
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Duncan Lorimer
Duncan Lorimer is the Woodburn Professor of Physics at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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