'Boom, boom, boom.'
a mysterious new fast radio burst that beats at regular intervals, much like a heart.
While we're arguably getting closer to understanding what they are and where they came from, discoveries like this latest one are only leading to more questions. Its source may still be a mystery, but astronomers are starting to hone in on an answer: the signal, like many other FRBs out there, may have emanated from a magnetar, the highly energetic and spinning remains of a collapsed star.
There's one big difference, though: the newly discovered signal is a million times brighter than the neutron stars we've discovered so far.
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