Australian astrophysicist’s $250,000 prize for field-changing discovery a ‘nice surprise’ | Science

When Prof Matthew Bailes and his collaborators discovered a mysterious flash from a galaxy far, far away, he thought it was “too good to be true”.

It was 2007, and the scientists had come across an “absurdly, insanely bright burst of radio waves” that had hit the Murriyang telescope at…