{"id":173140,"date":"2023-09-29T21:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-search-for-links-between-two-of-the-universes-most-spectacular-phenomena-has-come-up-empty-for-now"},"modified":"2023-09-29T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:27:33","slug":"a-search-for-links-between-two-of-the-universes-most-spectacular-phenomena-has-come-up-empty-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-search-for-links-between-two-of-the-universes-most-spectacular-phenomena-has-come-up-empty-for-now","title":{"rendered":"A search for links between two of the universe\u2019s most spectacular phenomena has come up empty\u2014for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-search-for-links-between-two-of-the-universes-most-spectacular-phenomena-has-come-up-empty-for-now2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space\u2014a flash that lasts only instants but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the sun does in a few years. The origin of these \u201cfast radio bursts\u201d is one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy today.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of ideas to explain the cause of the bursts: a <a href=\"https:\/\/frbtheorycat.org\/index.php\/Main_Page\">catalog<\/a> of current theories shows more than 50 potential scenarios. You can take your pick from highly magnetized <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron stars<\/a>, collisions of incredibly dense stars or many more extreme or exotic phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>How can we figure out which theory is correct? One way is to look for more information about the bursts, using other channels: specifically, using ripples in the fabric of the universe called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational waves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space\u2014a flash that lasts only instants but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the sun does in a few years. The origin of these \u201cfast radio bursts\u201d is one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy today. There is no shortage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173140","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=173140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}