As with Magnetar's mortgage bet, investing in M&A deals with the primary purpose of challenging them is also controversial. (fortune.com)
If that's not mere coincidence, he says, the FRBs may also be powered by the types of features found in those locations — such as a young magnetar in a wind nebula or a supernova remnant. (newscientist.com)
Extremely bright exploding stars, called superluminous supernovae, and long gamma ray bursts also occur in this type of galaxy, he noted, and both are hypothesized to be associated with massive, highly magnetic and rapidly rotating neutron stars called magnetars. (sciencedaily.com)