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Runaway Magnetar is Traversing Milky Way from Unknown Place of Origin, Astronomers Say

SGR 0501+4516 is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way Galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted; the object is so strange it might even offer clues to the mechanism behind fast radio bursts.

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