Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Cosmic explosion may be most distant object in Universe

May 25, 2011 - USA Today
Astronomers may have spotted the most distant object in the universe -- 13.14 billion light years away. Going by the prosaic name GRB 090429B, the object came to their attention because of a 10-second gamma-ray burst originally detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009.
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