Astronomers detected the most distant fast radio burst yet, which traveled 8 billion miles to reach Earth. Classified as FRB 20220610A, this cosmic radio waves lasted less than a millisecond yet smashed the team’s previous distance record by 50%.
FRB 20220610A was pinned to be originating from a small group of interacting galaxies in the process of merging, interacting and / or forming new stars. These fast radio bursts can be used by astronomers to measure the ‘missing’ matter between galaxies, providing valuable insight on weighing the universe.
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Using ASKAP’s array of dishes, we were able to determine precisely where the burst came from. Then we used [ESO’s VLT] in Chile to search for the source galaxy, finding it to be older and further away than any other FRB source found to date and likely within a small group of merging galaxies,” said Stuart Ryder, an astronomer from Macquarie University in Australia.
