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Rutgers University: Researchers Discover Megamaser Five Billion Light Years From Earth
April 08, 2022
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 8 (TNSRes) -- Rutgers University issued the following news:

An international team of researchers, including four Rutgers astronomers, has discovered a powerful megamaser -- a naturally occurring, astronomical, radio-wavelength laser -- in a galaxy nearly five billion light years from Earth.

The furthest of its kind, the megamaser was detected by South Africa's "MeerKAT," a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas. Megamas . . .

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