Thus, the more recently analyzed burst practically seems local.
They are brilliant in the truest sense, making them exciting sources of data for radio astronomers.
FRB20201124A was scrutinized with the most sensitive radio telescope on Earth, the Very Large Array.
An illustration of a magnetar surrounded by a nebula producing fast radio bursts.Illustration: NSF/AUI/NRAO/S. Dagnello
The team determined that the FRB came from a bubble of plasma surrounding a dense object.
What kind of dense object could lie at the bubbles center, you ask?
There are a couple of possibilities, but both are very dense.
The new data suggests that a magnetara strongly magnetized neutron starmay lie at its core.
Like other reliable FRBs, FRB20201124As radio emissions are persistent.
In fact, they are the weakest persistent radio emissions yet detected for an FRB.
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