Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious emissions of radio waves that pepper the cosmos. For a few milliseconds, they can outshine every other radio source in a galaxy, and the latest detected by astronomers has just outshone them all. That’s not all, either; it might finally provide precious details about the production of some of these mysterious events. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

FRBs come in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating . The repeating ones happen periodically, and the most famous are believed to be caused by a magnetar – a neutron star with a prodigious magnetic field, orbiting another object, with interactions that generate the powerful flashes. For the non-repeating ones, the explanations are

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