Artcile Source: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/11/mysterious-radio-burst-in-our-galaxy-came-from-a-magnetar/

For the first time ever, astronomers have linked an actual object to those mysterious radio bursts they’ve been detecting since 2007. The culprit in this case, as suspected, is a super-dense object known as a magnetar, but the finding has prompted an entirely new set of questions.

In recent years, scientists have detected hundreds of powerful, millisecond-long pulses known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), all of them emanating from outside our galaxy. But on April 28, 2020 something incredible happened: astrophysicists picked up an FRB from inside the Milky Way, an event that elicited much excitement and conversation.

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