ScienceBBC Sky at Night MagazineScientists have detected a strange signal that took 10 billion years to reach Earth. It has come from deep space near the dawn of time
Australian scientists have detected the most distant fast radio burst ever found, a signal that travelled for 10 billion years from when the universe was just 3 billion years old.
Discovery of FRB 20240304B, a flash of radio waves from when the Universe was 3 billion years old, the most distant fast radio burst known.
Astronomers at the University of Sydney detected a fast radio burst, designated FRB 20240304B, that travelled 10 billion years across the universe before reaching Earth.
The burst originated when the universe was only 3 billion years old and came from a small, metal-poor galaxy undergoing intense star formation, the study found.
The team says the discovery gives scientists a new way to study how galaxies and the invisible matter between them have evolved over billions of years.
The discovery was made by researchers at the University of Sydney using the South African MeerKAT telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, giving scientists a new tool to study how galaxies…
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