Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst yet
Scientists have spotted the farthest fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded, picked up in March 2024 after traveling 10 billion light years from a galaxy that existed just three billion years after the Big Bang. Detected by South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope and confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope, this burst comes from over twice as far as any previously pinpointed FRB. FRBs are powerful, short radio flashes from space of still-unknown origin.
- Burst originated 10 billion light years away
- Came from a galaxy at redshift 2.148
- MeerKAT and James Webb telescopes involved
- Previous FRBs were much closer by comparison
- Scientists suspect a magnetar caused this FRB
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