# Astronomers identify host galaxy of most distant fast radio burst

https://mins.news/en/item/95807

- CGTN, 2026-10-11 03:52 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-10-11/Astronomers-identify-host-galaxy-of-most-distant-fast-radio-burst-1R9gZ3ySOBO/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=World

> Using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers identified the host galaxy of FRB 20240304B, the most distant fast radio burst detected so far. The burst traveled for more than 10 billion years and came from a small, actively star-forming dwarf galaxy. Researchers say an energetic event such as a starquake in a young magnetar may have caused it.

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