Illustration of a neutron star emitting a glow of radio waves
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Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space may be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets colliding with neutron stars.
Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and there have been several thousand have since been found. They are thought to come from neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after some stars explode as supernovae, but it is not clear what causes them.
The explanation in favor of FRBs is…
