Astronomers have identified the host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever detected, using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) said.In a statement issued Thursday, SARAO said the discovery, published in the journal Science, involved FRB 20240304B, which was detected on March 4, 2024, by the MeerTRAP team, an international collaboration that uses MeerKAT to search for FRBs and other transient radio signals.READ: A group of galaxies discovered with SA’s MeerKAT...

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