{"id":202521,"date":"2024-12-27T02:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cosmic-radio-burst-from-8-billion-years-ago-reveals-universes-missing-matter"},"modified":"2024-12-27T02:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:13:41","slug":"cosmic-radio-burst-from-8-billion-years-ago-reveals-universes-missing-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cosmic-radio-burst-from-8-billion-years-ago-reveals-universes-missing-matter","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Radio Burst from 8 Billion Years Ago Reveals Universe\u2019s Missing Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-radio-burst-from-8-billion-years-ago-reveals-universes-missing-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This \u2018fast radio burst\u2019 (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach us. The FRB is also one of the most energetic ever observed; in a tiny fraction of a second it released the equivalent of our Sun\u2019s total emission over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the burst, named FRB 20220610A, was made in June last year by the ASKAP radio telescope in Australia and it smashed the team\u2019s previous distance record by 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing ASKAP\u2019s array of dishes, we were able to determine precisely where the burst came from,\u201d says Stuart Ryder, an astronomer from Macquarie University in Australia and the co-lead author of the study published today in Science. \u201cThen we used [ESO\u2019s VLT] in Chile to search for the source galaxy, finding it to be older and further away than any other FRB source found to date and likely within a small group of merging galaxies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This \u2018fast radio burst\u2019 (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202521","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}