NASA traces source of mysterious fast radio bursts sending signals to Earth
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In the new study, set to publish in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 were able to pinpoint five out of eight recent FRBs to their host galaxies, as well as the kinds of locations they originated from. Hubble played a big role in those studies, too."The team's findings support the idea that FRBs originate from the bursts of young magnetars, a type of neutron star with powerful magnetic fields. Massive stars go through stellar evolution and become neutron stars, some of which can be strongly magnetized, leading to flares and magnetic processes on their surfaces, which can emit radio light."The galaxies observed in the study existed billions of years ago, so scientists are observing them as they appeared when the universe was approximately half its current age.
As said here by Sophie Lewis