The oldest explosion in the universe

The oldest explosion in the universe
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/6/1

8 March 2006

Astronomers have detected the most distant -- and therefore oldest --
gamma-ray burst ever. The burst, called GRB 050904, was observed last
September and is thought to have come from an explosion that happened
around 12.8 billion years ago, when the universe was just 7% of its
current age. The explosion released an intense flash of gamma rays that
has been measured by three independent teams of astronomers from the
US, Italy and Japan. The results -- reported in three papers in this
week's Nature -- could help shed more light on the dynamics of the
early universe.

See: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/6/1
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