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Jenna Ahart

Fast radio burst traced to the outskirts of an ancient 'graveyard' galaxy — and the cause remains a mystery

An artist's impression of a magnetar, a bright, dense star surrounded by wispy, white magnetic field lines.

Our universe has plenty of stellar graveyards — dead galaxies littered with the burnt corpses of once-brilliant stars. But one of these ancient galaxies appears to be crawling back out of the grave.

New research has found a dead galaxy beaming mysterious flashes of light — a behavior that should be buried well into its past. The two new studies describing the shocking discovery were published Jan. 21 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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