A Strange, Sleeping Magnetar Just Woke Up After a Decade of Silence

By Rafi Letzter A particularly odd, spinning star has woken up, and it”s spitting bright flashes of radio waves at us again. The stellar spinner is a magnetar, which is a type of neutron star — a Manhattan-size remnant of a larger star, and the densest type of object besides black holes that we’ve detected anywhere in …