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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 colours, as a prism does, reveals the hydroxyl gigamaser (top-right rainbow-coloured line). Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)

June 9, 2026

South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe

Thato Manamela, University of Pretoria and Roger P. Deane, Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy; University of Cape Town

Scientists have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. This is a natural space laser.

The Milky Way above a single MeerKAT antenna in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Inset: EHT image of the Milky Way black hole. SARAO, EHT

May 17, 2022

African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries

Roger P. Deane, University of the Witwatersrand and Iniyan Natarajan, Harvard University

Sagittarius A* lies in the southern sky, passing directly above South Africa.

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