Fast radio burst’s unlikely home puzzles astronomers
A BABY SHOWER in a retirement home would surely raise some eyebrows. Likewise, astronomers were surprised to find a fast radio burst (FRB) in a globular cluster.
Strong evidence, highly magnetised newborn neutron stars. But stars in globular clusters are typically billions of years old, so any supernovae should have gone off a long time ago and any magnetars produced would have long since deactivated.
