'Very little is known about what causes the formation of magnetars,' researcher Kritti Sharma said. 'Our work helps to answer this question.'
Scientists have discovered that bizarre cosmic phenomena known as fast radio bursts are more likely to occur in huge galaxies than in smaller ones, in turn unraveling the secrets of how so-called magnetars form.Fast radio bursts , which are brief, intense bursts of radio waves originating from outer space, were first discovered in 2007, and are thought to be caused by highly magnetized neutron stars called magnetars.
'DSA-110 has more than doubled the number of FRBs with known host galaxies,' co-author Vikram Ravi, an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, said in the statement. 'This is what we built the array to do.'They discovered that FRBs are more common in massive star-forming galaxies than in lower-mass star-forming galaxies. This was surprising, as the researchers previously thought that FRBs occurred equally in all types of galaxies.
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