Samsung to confirm next week what everyone knew about the Galaxy Note7 months ago

One of the biggest mysteries of 2016 might end without a climatic ending after all.

Samsung may have reached the same conclusion for what caused its Galaxy Note7 to catch fire as everyone else did months ago.

Samsung has found that faulty batteries set some Galaxy Note7 units on fire, according to Reuters, which expects the company to make the much-anticipated findings public on Jan. 23.

Following reports of some Galaxy Note7 units catching fire, Samsung killed the smartphone and issued a recall last year. In September, the company also announced it was investigating what was causing some of the Galaxy Note7 to turn into flames.

Last month, the company told Mashable that it was still working with independent third-party experts to "re-visit every step of our engineering, manufacturing, and quality control processes," to zero in on the error.

While Samsung remained tight lipped to share any preliminary findings, many had assumed that it is the battery that could be at fault. Fuelling these speculations was a report by Instrumental, a company that helps technology giants with manufacturing and design issues.

Last month, the company said Galaxy Note7’s battery sits too tightly within the device, adding that even under normal pressure, the layers of lithium cobalt oxide and graphite touch and end up combusting.