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Hubble Shows That a Fast Radio Burst Came From a Giant Group of Galaxies


Way back when the cosmos was only five billion years old, a powerful explosion happened in a group of young galaxies halfway across the Universe. It sent out a blast of radiation from one member of that distant galaxy group.

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