The powerful burst was also traced to an unprecedented 130,000 light-years from its associated galaxy’s center, where few other stars exist. Fast radio bursts, strong pulses of energy detected ...

A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it changed Earth’s atmosphere, according to scientists. Gamma rays are ...

Now, a team of astronomers from MIT has pinpointed the origin of one such burst, FRB 20221022A, to the magnetosphere of a neutron star in a galaxy approximately 200 million light-years away.