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    Huge explosion in the early Universe

    The γ-ray burst GRB 050904, detected by the Swift satellite on 4 September last year, is one of the most distant objects ever observed. Its redshift of z = 6.3 equates to an explosion taking place 12.8 billion ye...

    G. Cusumano, V. Mangano, G. Chincarini, A. Panaitescu, D. N. Burrows in Nature (2006)