{"id":212236,"date":"2025-04-23T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/extreme-zombie-star-capable-of-ripping-human-atoms-apart-is-shooting-through-the-milky-way-and-nobody-knows-where-it-came-from"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:35:02","slug":"extreme-zombie-star-capable-of-ripping-human-atoms-apart-is-shooting-through-the-milky-way-and-nobody-knows-where-it-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/extreme-zombie-star-capable-of-ripping-human-atoms-apart-is-shooting-through-the-milky-way-and-nobody-knows-where-it-came-from","title":{"rendered":"Extreme \u2018zombie star\u2019 capable of ripping human atoms apart is shooting through the Milky Way \u2014 and nobody knows where it came from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extreme-zombie-star-capable-of-ripping-human-atoms-apart-is-shooting-through-the-milky-way-and-nobody-knows-where-it-came-from.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This unusually fast speed hints that it was not born as expected, which could help explain the puzzling origin of some fast radio bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This unusually fast speed hints that it was not born as expected, which could help explain the puzzling origin of some fast radio bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212236","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=212236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}