They observe, for the first time, a 'magnetar' outside our galaxy

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They observe, for the first time, a 'magnetar' outside our galaxy

In November 2023, the European space gamma-ray observatory, Integral, which ESA observes some of the most violent phenomena in the Universe, detected the sudden explosion of an unusual object. In just a tenth of a second, the instruments captured a brief but intense gamma-ray burst that seemed to originate from M82, a bright nearby galaxy in our Milky Way. But it was not a flash like the others. The data were received at the Integral Science Dat…