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Cosmic Enigma Solved? Extreme Stars May Hold the Key to Mysterious Radio Bursts

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Researchers discovered a universal scaling law in neutron stars, including magnetars, that might explain mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) By studying the sub-structure of their radio emissions, they found a commonality in their rotation periods. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars, concentrating up to twice the mass of the sun in a sphere of less than 25 km.

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Cosmic Enigma Solved? Extreme Stars May Hold the Key to Mysterious Radio Bursts

A universal relation for pulsars, magnetars, and potentially fast radio bursts. An international research team led by Michael Kramer and Kuo Liu from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have studied a rare species of ultra-dense stars, so-called magnetars, to uncover an u

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