The home galaxy of a second repeating fast radio burst is a puzzle
Astronomers have traced a mysterious, recurrent blast of radio waves to a Milky Way–like galaxy
The first galaxy discovered to host a repeating fast radio burst was a tiny dwarf galaxy. Now a second host galaxy has been found (arrow points to the burst’s location), and it’s a massive spiral similar to the Milky Way.
Shriharsh Tendulkar/Gemini Observatory