Recently astronomers have been able to associate two seemingly unrelated phenomena: an explosive event known as a fast radio burst and the change in speed of a spinning magnetar. And now new research suggests that the cause of both of these is the destruction of an asteroid by a magnetar.
For years astronomers were stumped by the origins of fast radio bursts, which are flashes of radio energy that last less than a second. Since fast radio bursts were detected in distant galaxies, they must be incredibly energetic events. But it wasn’t until astronomers caught a fast radio burst…
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