New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source’s environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.
The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of º«¹úÂãÎè, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.
