Press Release! MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe
Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy – from …
February 17, 2026
UP/IDIA researchers open a new frontier enabled by MeerKAT and IDIA’s advanced compute infrastructure and support Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. Hydroxyl megamasers are natural “space lasers” ... Read More
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