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South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe
- June 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a natural space laser, and this one is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away.
Originally published at Phys.org