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Repeating Fast Radio Burst Traced to Outskirts of Quiescent Elliptical Galaxy


The source of the newly-detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy, which is located 2 billion light-years from Earth and has a mass of more than 100 billion solar masses.

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