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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)

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.

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