{"id":92822,"date":"2019-06-28T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/astronomers-just-pinpointed-the-origin-of-a-single-fast-radio-burst-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:04:15","slug":"astronomers-just-pinpointed-the-origin-of-a-single-fast-radio-burst-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/astronomers-just-pinpointed-the-origin-of-a-single-fast-radio-burst-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Pinpointed The Origin of a Single Fast Radio Burst For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-pinpointed-the-origin-of-a-single-fast-radio-burst-for-the-first-time.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every now and again, our radio telescopes capture a mystery. A single flash, as powerful in radio wavelengths as half-a-billion Suns, condensed into a burst that lasts just a few milliseconds at most. Now, for the very first time, astrophysicists have traced one of these one-off fast radio bursts (FRBs) to its source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the big breakthrough that the field has been waiting for since astronomers discovered fast radio bursts in 2007,\u201d said astro-engineer Keith Bannister of Australia\u2019s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).<\/p>\n<p>The signal has been named FRB 180924 \u2014 they\u2019re named for the date of detection \u2014 and it originated in the outskirts of a Milky Way-sized galaxy roughly 3.6 billion light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and again, our radio telescopes capture a mystery. A single flash, as powerful in radio wavelengths as half-a-billion Suns, condensed into a burst that lasts just a few milliseconds at most. Now, for the very first time, astrophysicists have traced one of these one-off fast radio bursts (FRBs) to its source. \u201cThis is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92822","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}