Record-breaking ‘space laser’ erupts from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years away
Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting in a red ring. Splitting up the radio light into different colors, as a prism does, reveals the hydroxyl gigamaser (top-right rainbow-colored line). (Image credit: Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)) Astronomers have spotted the most distantContinue Reading











