South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope detected the brightest “megamaser” yet reported — an intense, naturally occurring, microwave laser-like signal coming from ~8 billion light-years away

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South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope detected the brightest “megamaser” yet reported — an intense, naturally occurring, microwave laser-like signal coming from ~8 billion light-years away

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'Truly extraordinary': Mega-laser shooting at us from halfway across the universe is the brightest 'cosmic beacon' we've ever seen

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Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird space-time trick first predicted by Einstein.

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