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Evening Standard
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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Cosmic ‘heartbeat’ found billions of light-years from Earth

Walkers look up into the night sky (Danny Lawson/PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

Far across the universe in a distant galaxy, astronomers have spotted a strange radio signal that keeps firing out towards Earth in fast bursts.

These bursts are coming from billions of light-years away and last up to three seconds, which is 1,000 times longer than the usual radio signals, and it’s the clearest pattern ever recorded.

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