{"id":203420,"date":"2025-01-09T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-trace-fast-radio-burst-to-surprise-source-for-first-time"},"modified":"2025-01-09T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:25:22","slug":"scientists-trace-fast-radio-burst-to-surprise-source-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-trace-fast-radio-burst-to-surprise-source-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Trace Fast Radio Burst to Surprise Source For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8sCG0rJitI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-galactic-magnetar-just-spat-out-something-shockingly-like-a-fast-radio-burst\">belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020<\/a>, scientists finally had concrete evidence to pin down an origin for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fast-radio-bursts\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">fast radio bursts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A mind-blowing new study has now narrowed down the mechanism. By studying the twinkling light of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fast-radio-bursts\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">fast radio burst<\/a> detected in 2022, a team of astronomers has traced its source to the powerful magnetic field around a magnetar, in a galaxy 200 million light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first conclusive evidence that fast radio bursts can emerge from the magnetospheres of magnetars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists finally had concrete evidence to pin down an origin for fast radio bursts. A mind-blowing new study has now narrowed down the mechanism. By studying the twinkling light of a fast radio burst detected in [\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-203420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203420","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=203420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}