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So this thing is located 1 gigaparsec away from us. The article also mentions that this thing is "probably less than 100 years old". Which then means that this

• mirimir 9y ago
  Yep.
• pavement 9y ago
  ...it would take a very special magnetar to unleash such monstrous FRBs in quick succession. “A neutron star bursting at this rate for thousands of years would quickly run out of fuel,” he said. His best guess is that the repeater is a very young magnetar — probably less than 100 years old. Yes, billions of years ago, there was a thing that lasted possibly one hundred years, but in that time during its existence it emitted radio bursts, and we're only noticing them right now.