{"id":204436,"date":"2025-01-24T08:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-trace-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-to-ancient-dead-galaxy"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:31:28","slug":"astronomers-trace-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-to-ancient-dead-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-trace-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-to-ancient-dead-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts to Ancient, Dead Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-trace-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-to-ancient-dead-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fast-radio-bursts\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Fast radio bursts<\/a> (FRBs) are intense flashes of radio light that last for only a fraction of a second.<\/p>\n<p>They are likely caused by the intense magnetic fields of a magnetar, which is a highly magnetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutron-stars\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">neutron star<\/a>. Beyond that, FRBs remain a bit of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>We know that most of them originate from outside our galaxy, though the few that have occurred within our galaxy have allowed us to pin the source on neutron stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense flashes of radio light that last for only a fraction of a second. They are likely caused by the intense magnetic fields of a magnetar, which is a highly magnetic neutron star. Beyond that, FRBs remain a bit of a mystery. We know that most of them originate from [\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-204436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204436","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=204436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}