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Most distant radio galaxy
August 15 , 2018
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- Astronomers, from Pune, used an Indian telescope, Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), and discovered the most distant radio galaxy ever known.
- It is located at a distance of 12 billion light-years. Radio galaxies are very rare objects in the universe.
- The radio galaxy belongs to a time when the universe was only seven per cent of its current age.
- GMRT is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter.
- It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics.
- The distance to this galaxy was then determined using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona.
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