“Radio bursts are a new tool” https://www.mpg.de/14373898/radio-bursts-are-a-new-tool
Laura Spitler has been head of the Lise Meitner group “Universal detection of ionised matter with fast radio bursts”for almost a year. The team is working on one of the hot topics in astrophysics. At Cornell University in the US, Spitler wrote her doctoral thesis on these largely unexplained phenomena. Her group at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn is currently investigating the space between galaxies with the help of fast radio bursts and using these bursts as probes for the intergalactic and interstellar medium. In an interview, the researcher explains her work.
On the one hand, new radio telescopes have recently become available.