China’s FAST telescope discovers world’s first persistently active repeating fast radio burst

Wu Yuehui

An international research team led by Li Di, a researcher with the National Astronomical Observatories (NAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, lately detected and localized FRB 20190520B, the world’s first and only persistently active repeating fast radio burst (FRB) so far, with the help of China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), known as the “China Sky Eye”.