{"id":3923841,"date":"2026-02-06T13:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/extreme-plasma-acceleration-in-monster-shocks-offers-new-explanation-for-fast-radio-bursts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:03:02","slug":"extreme-plasma-acceleration-in-monster-shocks-offers-new-explanation-for-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/extreme-plasma-acceleration-in-monster-shocks-offers-new-explanation-for-fast-radio-bursts\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme plasma acceleration in monster shocks offers new explanation for fast radio bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks\u2014some of the strongest shocks in the universe\u2014revealing how these extreme events in magnetar magnetospheres could be responsible for producing fast radio bursts (FRBs).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-extreme-plasma-monster-explanation-fast.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks\u2014some of the strongest shocks in the universe\u2014revealing how these extreme events in magnetar magnetospheres could be responsible for producing fast radio bursts (FRBs). <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}