Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a natural space laser, and this one is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-south-african-telescope-recordbreaking-early.html)

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