There may have been a huge explosion in the universe's oldest galaxy

Olivia Krueger

From Peking University in Beijing, China; Linhua Jiang and his colleagues were studying GN-z11, the oldest known galaxy in the universe. They were using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to look at GN-z11 when they said they saw the galaxy become hundreds of times brighter in less than 3 minutes. High-energy radiation can create an explosion in space, known as a gamma-ray burst, which has been ... ...more

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