{"id":174493,"date":"2023-10-20T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/astronomers-detect-mysterious-8-billion-year-old-energetic-burst"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:22:54","slug":"astronomers-detect-mysterious-8-billion-year-old-energetic-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/astronomers-detect-mysterious-8-billion-year-old-energetic-burst","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers detect mysterious 8 billion-year-old energetic burst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-detect-mysterious-8-billion-year-old-energetic-burst2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) \u2014 Astronomers have detected an intense flash of radio waves coming from what looks like a merger of galaxies dating to about 8 billion years ago \u2014 the oldest-known instance of a phenomenon called a <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/science\/astronomers-ponder-cosmic-mystery-over-powerful-radio-wave-bursts-2022-06-08\/\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">fast radio burst<\/a> that continues to defy explanation.<\/p>\n<p>This burst in less than a millisecond unleashed the amount of energy our sun emits in three decades, researchers said. It was detected using the Australian SKA Pathfinder, a radio telescope in the state of Western Australia. Its location was pinpointed by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope in Chile, one of the most powerful optical telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>A fast radio burst, or FRB, is a pulse of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation. It lasts a small fraction of a second but outshines most other sources of radio waves in the universe. Radio waves have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) \u2014 Astronomers have detected an intense flash of radio waves coming from what looks like a merger of galaxies dating to about 8 billion years ago \u2014 the oldest-known instance of a phenomenon called a fast radio burst that continues to defy explanation. This burst in less than a millisecond unleashed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174493","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}