{"id":106725,"date":"2020-05-07T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/exclusive-astronomers-might-have-the-first-ever-detection-of-a-fast-radio-burst-in-our-own-galaxy"},"modified":"2020-05-07T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:06:01","slug":"exclusive-astronomers-might-have-the-first-ever-detection-of-a-fast-radio-burst-in-our-own-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/exclusive-astronomers-might-have-the-first-ever-detection-of-a-fast-radio-burst-in-our-own-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Astronomers Might Have The First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-astronomers-might-have-the-first-ever-detection-of-a-fast-radio-burst-in-our-own-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Milky Way magnetar called SGR 1935+2154 may have just massively contributed to solving the mystery of powerful deep-space radio signals that have vexed astronomers for years.<\/p>\n<p>On 28 April 2020, the dead star \u2014 sitting just 30,000 light-years away \u2014 was recorded by radio observatories around the world, seemingly flaring with a single, millisecond-long burst of incredibly bright radio waves that would have been detectable from another galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, global and space X-ray observatories recorded a very bright X-ray counterpart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Milky Way magnetar called SGR 1935+2154 may have just massively contributed to solving the mystery of powerful deep-space radio signals that have vexed astronomers for years. On 28 April 2020, the dead star \u2014 sitting just 30,000 light-years away \u2014 was recorded by radio observatories around the world, seemingly flaring with a single, millisecond-long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}