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Webb and MeerKAT Find the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet, From a Small Galaxy About 11 Billion Years Back

FRB 20240304B was caught by South Africa's MeerKAT and its host found by Webb. The galaxy is a surprise, a young dwarf far lighter than expected, and it favours magnetars over mergers.

Oct 9, 2026

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A Hundred Radio Flashes From Deep Space Have Given Astronomers a New Way to Weigh the Universe's Missing Matter

Fast radio bursts last a millisecond and arrive smeared by everything they pass through. Caltech's Kritti Sharma and Vikram Ravi used that smear from about a hundred of them to measure how clumpy the gas between galaxies is. It is smoother than anyone thought.

Sep 15, 2026