CHIME

03/13/2026

The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project will soon be upgraded to Unveil the Microsecond Sky

The Government of Quebec and partner organizations provide additional funding, bringing the total research investment to $106 million. McGill was awarded $42 million through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Innovation Fund to support 10 research infrastructure projects led by researchers at ...

02/01/2026

The CHIME team extends its condolences to the family of former Federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan. Kirsty was a true "light" unto science in Canada, pictured here speaking at our First Light Ceremony to inaugurate the CHIME telescope in Sept 2017 at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, BC. She will be greatly missed (photo credit: S. Arstad, infonews).

02/01/2026

The CHIME team extends its condolences to the family of Kirsty Duncan over her untimely passing. Kirsty was a true "light" unto science in Canada. She is pictured here speaking at our First Light Ceremony at the Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory in Penticton, BC in September 2017. She will be greatly missed.
(photo credit: S. Arstad, infonews.ca).

02/01/2026

CHIME extends its deepest condolences to the family of Kirsty Duncan over her untimely passing. We were honoured to have had the chance to work with her at our First Light Ceremony in Penticton, BC in Sept 2017 (pictured below). She was a true "light" unto science in Canada and will be greatly missed (photo credit: S. Arstat, infonews.ca).

01/05/2026

CHIME/FRB has discovered a new potentially hyperactive repeater!
https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17574

12/18/2025

Highlighted as among top-read papers in AAS journals in 2025!

The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20240209A is the only known repeating burst to come from a quiescent galaxy.

08/21/2025

CHIME and its new Outrigger telescopes find and localize a super bright FRB!

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/brightest-fast-radio-burst-seen-so-far-allows-researchers-zoom-location-origin-366528?fbclid=IwdGRjcAMUVL1jbGNrAxRUrmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeCN4x4zG9aNgHghd4BlMOF_XFSNhfdVQ1CI9ZIAla4rfgHEssxUOpjD1v7eo_aem_usdD09nKTraV4e19eNkn_A

A team of international astronomers, including McGill researchers, have pinpointed one of the brightest fast radio bursts (FRBs) ever detected to a location in a nearby galaxy. The finding and the location surprised the team and offered new insight into FRBs, which are one of astrophysics’ biggest...

07/17/2025

The CHIME Fast Radio Bursts Team at the FRB 2025 meeting last week at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

07/16/2025

The CHIME/FRB team discovered a strange radio source in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

An international team of astronomers report the discovery of a long-period radio transient, which is unusually circularly polarized and showcases an accelerating spin period. The finding of the new transient, designated CHIME J1634+44, was detailed in a paper published July 7 on the pre-print server...