Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 20, 2023

In a paper published in Science, a global team led by Macquarie University's Dr Stuart Ryder and Swinburne University of Technology's Associate Professor Ryan Shannon, report on their discovery of the most ancient and distant fast radio burst located to date, about eight billion years old. The discovery smashes the team's previous record by 50 per cent. It confirms that fast radio bursts (