{"id":180403,"date":"2024-01-13T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unprecedented-discovery-strange-blob-like-origin-of-mysterious-record-breaking-radio-bursts"},"modified":"2024-01-13T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:30:23","slug":"unprecedented-discovery-strange-blob-like-origin-of-mysterious-record-breaking-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unprecedented-discovery-strange-blob-like-origin-of-mysterious-record-breaking-radio-bursts","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Discovery: Strange \u201cBlob-Like\u201d Origin of Mysterious Record-Breaking Radio Bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unprecedented-discovery-strange-blob-like-origin-of-mysterious-record-breaking-radio-bursts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, astronomers led by Northwestern University have pinpointed the extraordinary object\u2019s birthplace \u2014 and it\u2019s rather curious, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Using images from NASA \u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers traced the FRB back to not <em>one<\/em> galaxy but a group of at least <em>seven <\/em>galaxies. The galaxies in the collection appear to be interacting with one another \u2014 perhaps even on the path to a potential merger. Such groups of galaxies are rare and possibly led to conditions that triggered the FRB.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected finding might challenge scientific models of how FRBs are produced and what produces them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, astronomers led by Northwestern University have pinpointed the extraordinary object\u2019s birthplace \u2014 and it\u2019s rather curious, indeed. Using images from NASA \u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers traced the FRB back to not one galaxy but a group of at least seven galaxies. The galaxies in the collection appear to be interacting with one [\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-180403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180403","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=180403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}