A closer look at “Astronomers Trace Most Distant Fast Radio Burst to Galaxy 10 Billion Light-Years Away”, exactly as the source publishes it. An international team of astronomers has pinpointed the farthest fast radio burst (FRB) ever observed, a fleeting but intense blast of radio waves that journeyed for over 10 billion years before being captured by telescopes on Earth. The discovery, reported in the journal Science, pushes the boundaries of our understanding of these enigmatic cosmic events and offers a new probe of the universe's distant past.
The burst, designated FRB 20220610A, was detected in June 2022 by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a radio telescope array in Western Australia. Follow-up observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile traced the burst to a galaxy so far away that its light has taken 10 billion years to reach us—meaning the FRB occurred when the universe was only about 3.8 billion years old. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.