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Jan 9, 2025

Scientists Trace Fast Radio Burst to Surprise Source For First Time

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When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists finally had concrete evidence to pin down an origin for fast radio bursts.

A mind-blowing new study has now narrowed down the mechanism. By studying the twinkling light of a fast radio burst detected in 2022, a team of astronomers has traced its source to the powerful magnetic field around a magnetar, in a galaxy 200 million light-years away.

It’s the first conclusive evidence that fast radio bursts can emerge from the magnetospheres of magnetars.

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