Editing Magnetar (section)

===Recent discoveries===
[[File:Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst and supernova powered by a magnetar.jpg|thumb|Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst and supernova powered by a magnetar<ref>{{cite web |title=Biggest Explosions in the Universe Powered by Strongest Magnets |url=http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1527/ |access-date=9 July 2015}}</ref>]]
On February 21, 2008, it was announced that NASA and researchers at [[McGill University]] had discovered a neutron star with the properties of a radio pulsar which emitted some magnetically powered bursts, like a magnetar. This suggests that magnetars are not merely a rare type of pulsar but may be a (possibly reversible) phase in the lives of some pulsars.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/jekyll-hyde-neutron-star-discovered-researchers-29230 |title=Jekyll-Hyde neutron star discovered by researchers] |date=21 February 2008 |publisher=[[McGill University]] |first=Mark |last=Shainblum}}</ref> On September 24, 2008, [[ESO]] announced what it ascertained was the first optically active magnetar-candidate yet discovered, using ESO's [[Very Large Telescope]]. The newly discovered object was designated SWIFT J195509+261406.<ref name="eso.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0831/ <!-- old URL, retained for archival purposes: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/pr-31-08.html --> |title=The Hibernating Stellar Magnet: First Optically Active Magnetar-Candidate Discovered |date=23 September 2008 |publisher=[[European Southern Observatory|ESO]]}}</ref> On September 1, 2014, [[ESA]] released news of a magnetar close to supernova remnant [[Kesteven 79]]. Astronomers from Europe and China discovered this magnetar, named 3XMM J185246.6+003317, in 2013 by looking at images that had been taken in 2008 and 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/08/Magnetar_discovered_close_to_supernova_remnant_Kesteven_79 |title=Magnetar discovered close to supernova remnant Kesteven 79 |date=1 September 2014 |publisher=ESA/XMM-Newton/ Ping Zhou, Nanjing University, China}}</ref> In 2013, a magnetar [[SGR J1745−2900|PSR J1745−2900]] was discovered, which orbits the [[black hole]] in the [[Sagittarius A*]] system. This object provides a valuable tool for studying the ionized [[interstellar medium]] toward the [[Galactic Center]]. In 2018, the temporary result of the [[GW170817#Astrophysical origin and products|merger of two neutron stars]] was determined to be a hypermassive magnetar, which shortly collapsed into a black hole.<ref name="MNRAS-20180904">{{Cite journal |last1=van&nbsp;Putten |first1=Maurice H P M |last2=Della&nbsp;Valle |first2=Massimo |date=2018-09-04 |title=Observational evidence for extended emission to GW170817 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters |language=en |volume=482 |issue=1 |pages=L46–L49 |doi=10.1093/mnrasl/sly166 |doi-access=free |issn=1745-3925 |arxiv=1806.02165 |bibcode=2019MNRAS.482L..46V |s2cid=119216166}}</ref>

In April 2020, a possible link between [[fast radio burst]]s (FRBs) and magnetars was suggested, based on observations of [[SGR 1935+2154]], a likely magnetar located in the [[Milky Way]] galaxy.<ref name="AT-20201104">{{cite news |last=Timmer |first=John |title=We finally know what has been making fast radio bursts - Magnetars, a type of neutron star, can produce the previously enigmatic bursts. |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/its-coming-from-inside-the-galaxy-first-fast-radio-burst-source-idd/ |date=4 November 2020 |work=[[Ars Technica]] |access-date=4 November 2020 }}</ref><ref name="NASA-20201104">{{cite news |last1=Cofield |first1=Calla |last2=Andreoli |first2=Calire |last3=Reddy |first3=Francis |title=NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-ray, Radio Burst |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7776 |date=4 November 2020 |work=[[NASA]] |access-date=4 November 2020 }}</ref><ref name="NAT-20201104">{{cite journal |author=Andersen, B. |display-authors=et al.|title=A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2863-y |date=4 November 2020 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=587 |issue=7832|pages=54–58 |doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2863-y |pmid=33149292|arxiv=2005.10324|bibcode=2020Natur.587...54C|s2cid=218763435|access-date=5 November 2020 }}</ref><ref name="SA-20200505">{{cite news |last=Drake |first=Nadia |author-link=Nadia Drake |title='Magnetic Star' Radio Waves Could Solve the Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts - The surprise detection of a radio burst from a neutron star in our galaxy might reveal the origin of a bigger cosmological phenomenon |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/magnetic-star-radio-waves-could-solve-the-mystery-of-fast-radio-bursts/ |date=5 May 2020 |work=[[Scientific American]] |access-date=9 May 2020 }}</ref><ref name="SA-20200501">{{cite news |last=Starr |first=Michelle |title=Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy |url=https://www.sciencealert.com/a-galactic-magnetar-just-spat-out-something-shockingly-like-a-fast-radio-burst |date=1 May 2020 |work=ScienceAlert.com |access-date=9 May 2020 }}</ref>