<ul><li>A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originated from the edge region of an 11 billion-year-old galaxy.</li><li>The FRB, named FRB 20240209A, was observed 21 times between February and June, allowing astronomers to pinpoint its source located two billion light-years away.</li><li>The discovery challenges the belief that FRBs are caused by young magnetars and suggests that merging magnetars in a dense globular cluster may generate FRBs.</li><li>This finding indicates that the astrophysical processes behind FRBs are more diverse than previously thought.</li></ul>

A Fast Radio Burst Came From an Old, Dead Galaxy

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