Astronomers Track a Fast Radio Burst to Its Source—a Magnetar
Jun 17, 2020•11 min
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Episode description
The origin of these explosions of radio waves has long been an astrophysics mystery. Now one has been traced to an ultra-dense spinning magnetized stellar core.
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