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Webb telescope traces farthest-known fast radio burst to a small, early-universe galaxy

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the galaxy that produced the farthest fast radio burst ever detected, first spotted in 2024 by the MeerKAT array. The source galaxy formed just 3 billion years after the Big Bang and is roughly 1,000 times smaller than galaxies linked to previously known bursts, which occurred billions of years later.