# Truly single events that destroy or transform their source, such as compact-object mergers or collapses.

> Still possible: Truly single events that destroy or transform their source, such as compact-object mergers or collapses.

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Answer · Fast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off bursts

# Truly single events that destroy or transform their source, such as compact-object mergers or collapses.

Truly single events that destroy or transform their source, such as compact-object mergers or collapses.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Some one-off positions never repeat however long they are watched.
- Occasional coincidences with gravitational-wave events, short gamma-ray bursts or supernovae.

## What would rule it out

- Long monitoring showing that essentially every one-off source repeats.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The first burst did not repeat in 90 hours, and its discoverers proposed a singular event such as a supernova…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/fast-radio-bursts/evidence/EVD0CVCMF2208XM/the-first-burst-did-not-repeat-in-90-hours-and-its)

Speculative

FOR

[Repeaters prove that at least some sources survive their bursts.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/fast-radio-bursts/evidence/EVD0CVCMF9W6EVT/repeaters-prove-that-at-least-some-sources-survive-their)

Established

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What produces most of the one-off fast radio bursts?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/fast-radio-bursts/questions/QST0CVCMB5213XT/what-produces-most-of-the-one-off-fast-radio-bursts)

Most likelyMagnetars or other neutron stars formed late, by mergers of neutron stars or white dwarfs or by the collapse…

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Truly single events that destroy or transform their source, such as compact-object mergers or collapses. [Answer ANS0CVCMET8031G]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CVCMET8031G
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