Dust scatters blue light out, but it's much more gradual.
Swift detects and localizes and sends the information instantaneously to everybody. Every time a burst goes off, we check the resources we have available.
This burst smashes the old distance record by 500 million light-years.
At that point we either had found the most distant burst in the universe, or there was dust in the way.
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.