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Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched

The elusive particles would be hard to catch, but they’d be a smoking gun, researchers say

Magnetar illustration

Magnetars, highly magnetized stellar corpses like the one illustrated here, could be the source of two different cosmic enigmas: fast radio bursts and high-energy neutrinos, a new study suggests.

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By Lisa Grossman

- More than 2 years ago

For over a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of fast radio bursts, brief blasts of radio waves that come mostly from distant galaxies.