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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) - bright millisecond-long flashes of radio waves that may originate in the distant Universe - are among the most exciting unsolved problems of modern astrophysics. Interpretations have ranged from evaporating black holes to cosmic string kinks to microwave ovens, and the jury is still out. However, we have found an extremely unusual source that may be associated with a FRB. Using these observations, we will find out whether or not this unusual source is a neutron star: the collapsed core of a massive stellar supernova.
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