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The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...

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Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.