Cosmic explosion is new candidate for most distant object in the universe
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. At an estimated distance of 13.14 billion light years, the burst lies far beyond any known quasar and could be more distant than any previously known galaxy or gamma-ray burst.
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