{"id":12150,"date":"2022-07-14T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T18:10:40","slug":"heartbeat-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/14\/heartbeat-burst\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbeat Burst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from CNN<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mysterious fast radio burst in space has a &#8216;heartbeat&#8217; pattern<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/profiles\/ashley-strickland-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashley Strickland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astronomers detect signals from a galaxy far, far away\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOX4aGLL6h0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A mysterious radio burst with a pattern similar to a heartbeat has been detected in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronomers estimate that the signal came from a galaxy roughly a billion light-years away, but the exact location and cause of the burst is unknown. A study detailing the findings published Wednesday in the journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04841-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are intense, millisecond-long bursts of radio waves with unknown origins. The first FRB was discovered in 2007, and since then, hundreds of these quick, cosmic flashes have been detected coming from various, distant points across the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Many FRBs release super bright radio waves lasting only a few milliseconds at most before disappearing completely, and about 10% of them have been known to repeat and have patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/13\/world\/heartbeat-fast-radio-burst-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Mysterious fast radio burst in space has a &#8216;heartbeat&#8217; pattern By\u00a0Ashley Strickland A mysterious radio burst with a pattern similar to a heartbeat has been detected in space. Astronomers estimate that the signal came from a galaxy roughly a billion light-years away, but the exact location and cause of the burst is unknown. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}