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What causes Fast Radio Bursts?

If Fast Radio Bursts turn out to be a repeating phenomena they cannot be explained by one-off events like the collision of binary neutron stars. Prof Duncan Lorimer and Prof Maura McLaughlin discuss what astrophysical objects could be responsible.

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