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Humanity receives mysterious 'mega-laser' signal from unknown source

The MeerKAT telescope detected the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever found, a powerful natural radio laser from a merging galaxy 8 billion light-years away, magnified by gravitational lensing.

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Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

This system is truly extraordinary. We're seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. Fundamentally, masers and lasers are focused beams of light in the same frequency. In the realm of astrophysics, these can arise from clouds of dust being excited into a higher energy state from the light emitted by other sources, like stars and black holes.

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Humanity receives mysterious 'mega-laser' signal from unknown source

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

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