First-ever detection of a Fast Radio Burst in our own galaxy
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A Milky Way magnetar SGR 1935+2154 may have solved the mystery of deep-space radio signals that have baffled astronomers. On 28 April, the dead star - 30,000 light-years away - was recorded by radio observatories across the world, seemingly flaring a single, millisecond-long burst of incredibly bright radio waves that could be detectable from another galaxy. It could finally point to the source of fast radio bursts.
