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海量资料下载 免费学习英语 /xinlw.htm （申请网址） 洛基国际英语 竭诚为您服务 Mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from billions of light years away have left the scientists who detected them speculating about their origins. The international research team, writing in the journal Science, rule out?terrestrial（陆地的）?sources for the four fast radio bursts and say their brightness and distance suggest they come from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half its current age. ? The burst energetics indicate that they originate from an extreme?astrophysical（天体物理学的）?event involving relativistic objects such as neutron stars or black holes. ? Study lead Dan Thornton, a PhD student at Englands University of Manchester and Australias Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, said the findings pointed to some extreme events involving large amounts of mass or energy as the source of the radio bursts. ? He said: A single burst of radio emission of unknown origin was detected outside our Galaxy about six years ago but no one was certain what it was or even if it was real, so we have spent the last four years searching for more of these explosive, short-duration radio bursts. This paper describes four more bursts, removing any doubt that they are real. The radio bursts last for just a few milliseconds and the furthest one that we detected was 11 billion light years away. ? Astonishingly, the findings -- taken from a tiny fraction of the sky -- also suggest that there should be one of these signals going off every 10 seconds. Max-Planck Institute Director and Manchester professor, Michael Kramer, explained: The bursts last only a tenth of the blink of an eye. With current telescopes we need to be lucky to look at the right spot at the right time. But if we could view the sky with radio eyes there would be flashes going off all over the sky every day. ? The team, which included researchers from the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and the US, used the CSIRO Parkes 64metre r