Magnetars are highly magnetized, rapidly rotating super-dense stars, coming from all over the sky and of unknown origin. In a shocking discovery that could help to solve one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries, now astronomers have spotted an entirely different route. A stellar corpse called a white dwarf collided into a neutron star which has been creating an extremely powerful burst and leaving behind a magnetar. All different FRBs have been extragalactic, that is to say outside the milky way. Even more importantly, the astronomers have claimed they’ve also recognized the origin of the burst.
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