{"id":94746,"date":"2019-08-13T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/astronomers-have-detected-a-whopping-8-new-repeating-signals-from-deep-space"},"modified":"2019-08-13T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:23:15","slug":"astronomers-have-detected-a-whopping-8-new-repeating-signals-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/astronomers-have-detected-a-whopping-8-new-repeating-signals-from-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-detected-a-whopping-8-new-repeating-signals-from-deep-space.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest mysteries out there in the Universe is inching closer to answers. An astonishing <em>eight<\/em> new repeating radio signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected flaring from deep space.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of 2019, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/72-new-fast-radio-burst-signals-frb-121102-breakthrough-listen-neural-network-machine-learning\">one of these mysterious signals<\/a>, FRB 121102, was known to flash repeatedly. In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-found-a-second-source-of-repeating-fast-radio-bursts\">scientists reported a second<\/a> repeating one (FRB 180814).<\/p>\n<p>This new paper \u2014 available <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1908.03507\">on preprint server arXiv<\/a>, and accepted into <em>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em> \u2014 describes eight new repeating signals detected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/chime-experiment.ca\/\">Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment<\/a> (CHIME) radio telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest mysteries out there in the Universe is inching closer to answers. An astonishing eight new repeating radio signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected flaring from deep space. At the start of 2019, just one of these mysterious signals, FRB 121102, was known to flash repeatedly. In January, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94746","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=94746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}