Dead Stars Orbiting Black Holes May Explain Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts - Scientific American
'Such extreme magnetic fields have only previously been seen near neutron stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. '
'The team suggests this FRB’s mysterious source is a very young and fast-spinning, highly magnetized neutron star—a “magnetar”—that may be orbiting a massive black hole. '
'These “fast radio bursts” (FRBs) pop up with startling frequency and intensity all across the sky, each emerging from unknown faraway extragalactic sources and packing the power output of up to hundreds of millions of suns into just a few fleeting milliseconds. '
'FRB 121102 does not repeat with clockwork regularity; instead, its bursts are intermittent and, so far, impossible to precisely predict. '
'A team studying one particular FRB some three billion light years from Earth—known as FRB 121102, the only ever seen to repeat—has found it is engulfed by an extremely strong magnetic field. '
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'Such extreme magnetic fields have only previously been seen near neutron stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. '
'The team suggests this FRB’s mysterious source is a very young and fast-spinning, highly magnetized neutron star—a “magnetar”—that may be orbiting a massive black hole. '
'These “fast radio bursts” (FRBs) pop up with startling frequency and intensity all across the sky, each emerging from unknown faraway extragalactic sources and packing the power output of up to hundreds of millions of suns into just a few fleeting milliseconds. '
'FRB 121102 does not repeat with clockwork regularity; instead, its bursts are intermittent and, so far, impossible to precisely predict. '
'A team studying one particular FRB some three billion light years from Earth—known as FRB 121102, the only ever seen to repeat—has found it is engulfed by an extremely strong magnetic field. '
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