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Astronomers Using MeerKAT Spot a Cosmic Laser Halfway Across the Universe


Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away, opening a new radio astronomy frontier.

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