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Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies.


Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead stars known as magnetars, a new study suggests.

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