{"id":229219,"date":"2026-01-17T02:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/astronomer-uses-china-sky-eye-to-reveal-binary-origin-of-fast-radio-bursts"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:20:24","slug":"astronomer-uses-china-sky-eye-to-reveal-binary-origin-of-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/astronomer-uses-china-sky-eye-to-reveal-binary-origin-of-fast-radio-bursts","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer uses \u2018China Sky Eye\u2019 to reveal binary origin of fast radio bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomer-uses-china-sky-eye-to-reveal-binary-origin-of-fast-radio-bursts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio burst (FRB) sources\u2014brief but powerful flashes of radio waves from distant galaxies\u2014reside in binary stellar systems. This means the FRB source is not an isolated star, as previously assumed, but part of a binary stellar system in which two stars orbit each other.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) located in Guizhou, also known as the \u201cChina Sky Eye,\u201d the team detected a distinctive signal that reveals the presence of a nearby companion star orbiting the FRB source.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adq3225\" target=\"_blank\">The discovery,<\/a> published in <i>Science<\/i>, is based on nearly 20 months of monitoring an active repeating FRB located about 2.5 billion light-years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio burst (FRB) sources\u2014brief but powerful flashes of radio waves from distant galaxies\u2014reside in binary stellar systems. This means the FRB source is not an [\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-229219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229219","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=229219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}