We have detected a strange new signal from across the chasm of time and space.
source detected last year was recorded spitting out a whopping 1,863 bursts over 82 hours, amid a total of 91 hours of observation.characterize not just the galaxy that hosts the source and its distance from us, but also what the source is.20201124A, was detected with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope in China and described in a new paper led by astronomer Heng Xu of Peking University in China.
Since then, many more have been detected: millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves, discharging in that moment as much power as 500 million Suns. Based on the wealth of data delivered by FRB 20201124A, astronomers were able to infer that the source is a magnetar. That companion, the data suggest, could be a hot, blue Be-type star, which are often found in companions with neutron stars. The evidence for this wasBut there was something else peculiar, too.
Because their lives are so brief, these young magnetars are thought to be found in regions where star formation is still occurring. Stars live their short lives and die, creating more clouds of material to give birth to more stars. It's a beautiful cosmic circle of life.
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