With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst ...

This means the FRB must have originated within the magnetosphere of the pulsar, which confirms magnetars as the source of this particular FRB. This study not only confirms magnetars as the source ...

First, these observations irrevocably blur the line between rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars. Although two transient magnetars recently discovered during X-ray outbursts may yet, in ...

But now, a rare burst has provided indications that FRBs likely originate near the star and that they share a feature with the emissions of pulsars, another subtype of neutron star.