# Fast Radio Burst "Afterglow" Was Actually a Flickering Black Hole April 04, 2016 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events. These findings were quickly called into question by follow-up observations. New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.See more at --- Attachments- [ image berger\_01.png ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/astronomy/files/berger_01.png) --- See also:- [ Faculty ](/announcements/faculty) - [ News Media ](/filter_by/news-media) - [ 2016 ](/news-date/2016) - [ April ](/news-date/april-2) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)