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 Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.
