Something’s off.A report describes FRB 20240304B, a fast radio burst said to have been emitted when the Universe was about 3 billion years old. Astronomers reportedly traced it to a host galaxy that was far smaller than they had expected to find: a young, actively star-forming dwarf galaxy described as 1,000 times less massive than expected.
The report says the burst lasted one-thousandth of a second and that 90 percent of the host galaxy's stellar mass formed during the previous 30 million years. That youthful setting led researchers to favor a magnetar as a possible source, rather than a collision between two neutron stars—but the origin of fast radio bursts remains unproven.
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