Astronomers find farthest FRB 20240304B with MeerKAT and James Webb
A record-breaking fast radio burst traveled over 11 billion years to Earth, originating from a surprisingly small dwarf galaxy identified using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Astronomers just caught an extremely distant fast radio burst (FRB 20240304B) that traveled over 11 billion years to reach us, the farthest one ever found. Using South Africa's MeerKAT telescope and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they got a rare ... [551 chars]
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