MeerKAT Discovers Farthest Hydroxyl Megamaser to Date

LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1 is essentially the most distant megamaser of its type ever detected. LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1 lies at a distance of about 5 billion light-years from Earth. Nicknamed Nkalakatha, this megamaser was found by the MeerKAT telescope as a part of the Looking At the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array (LADUMA) deep HI survey. “Megamasers are normally […]