Crumbling planets might trigger repeating fast radio bursts
It’s one more hypothesis among many for the source of these flares
![illustration of a magnetic neutron star](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/041322_lk_planet-frbs_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Interactions between a planet and a magnetic neutron star (illustrated) might be the source of repeating, millisecond-long bursts of cosmic radio waves.
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