Laduma! MeerKAT spots distant megamaser - IT-Online

A powerful, naturally occurring “space laser”, called a megamaser, has been discovered with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope in a galaxy nearly 5-billion light-years away. This is the most distant such megamaser found so far, and was probably forged in …

A powerful, naturally occurring space laser, called a megamaser, has been discovered with South Africas MeerKAT radio telescope in a galaxy nearly 5-billion light-years away. This is the most distan… [+4229 chars]

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