In a nutshell Astronomers have discovered repeated radio burst signals coming from an unprecedented location – 40,000 light-years away from the center of an ancient, inactive galaxy located 2 billion light-years from Earth.

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” elliptical galaxy.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) continue to baffle astronomers, and a new discovery has added another layer of complexity to this enigmatic phenomenon. According to a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters,