{"id":23562,"date":"2020-06-19T06:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2020-06-19T06:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:31:40","slug":"astronomers-detected-the-first-regular-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/astronomers-detected-the-first-regular-fast-radio-bursts\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers detected the first regular fast radio bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The astronomers have detected a strange repeating rhythm of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light-years away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast radio bursts are the short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought to be the product of small, distant, extremely dense objects, though exactly what those objects might be is a longstanding mystery in astrophysics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FRBs typically last a few milliseconds, during which time they can outshine entire galaxies. Since the first FRB was observed in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronomers have catalogued over 100 fast radio bursts from distant sources scattered across the universe, outside our own galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The astronomers observed that this 16-day pattern of fast radio bursts reoccurred consistently across more than 500 days of observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astronomers have detected a strange repeating rhythm of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light-years away. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Fast radio bursts are the short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought to be the product of small, distant, extremely dense objects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23564,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions\/23564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23562"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}