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A research team led by Professor Soebur Razzaque from the University of Johannesburg predicted gamma-ray burst (GRB) behaviour. One such burst recently disrupted cell phone reception in South Africa. While Earth gets blasted by mild short GRBs regularly, the research team found that giant flare GRB 200415A came from another possible source.
It erupted from a very rare, powerful neutron star called a magnetar, a star dying soon after the beginning of the Universe. Their findings were published in
Gamma-ray bursts explained
GRB explosions can disrupt mobile phone reception on Earth. Prof Razzaque explains that when a star dies, “it will get bigger and become a red giant star. After that it will collapse into a small compact star called a white dwarf”.
A star could be the reason behind your bad cellphone reception Updated
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Researchers are investigating a very strange phenomenon in South Africa that could be affecting all cellphone users.
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Darren Maule has noticed that he has being getting very bad reception when on a call in areas he has had no issues in before. Have you also noticed the same thing?
According to researchers, a star could be disrupting mobile phone reception across South Africa.
Soebur Razzaque, who is the research team leader and the University of Johannesburg Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) director, said that this is caused by a sun (a very ordinary star) when it dies.