There's something so wonderful about fast radio bursts. You're a celestial object, humming along, then suddenly BOOM! You shoot off enough energy, in just a fraction of a second, that it's detectable 10 billion light years away.
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Record-breaking fast radio burst is the oldest and most distant ever seen
Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the universe’s otherwise-invisible intergalactic matter