Radio signal 9 billion light-years away: What it means and where it came from - Fox News
McGill University said in a release that this marked the first time this type of radio signal has been detected at such a large distance.
The GMRT, one of TIFRs (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)and India's largest projects to date."There are not many things in the universe that emit strictly periodic signals," Daniele Michilli, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, said at the time."Examples that we know of in our own galaxy are radio pulsars and magnetars, which rotate and produce a beamed emission similar to a lighthouse.In this most recent case, properties of the signal indicate that it came from gaseous neutral hydrogen in a star-forming galaxy named "SDSSJ0826+5630.""It’s the equivalent to a look-back in time of 8.8 billion years," Arnab Chakraborty, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at McGill University, said in a statement.