fast radio burst

noun3

1. •
   A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.

   • This would confirm a cosmological origin of the fast radio burst, although this was disputed because the afterglow could also be caused by conventional AGN activity. — 2016
2. •
   An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
3. •
   An object from which the phenomenon occurs.