Published in Nature Astronomy · View the paper (DOI)
Astronomers use a novel spectrograph to measure the redshift of GN-z11, a ancient galaxy located 13.4 billion light years away, marking it as the farthest detectable galaxy in the universe. The team's precise measurement improves the accuracy of the galaxy's distance by a factor of 100.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- The farthest galaxy in the universe University of Tokyo · Dec 14, 2020 · first to report
- Most-distant galaxy helps elucidate the early universe Carnegie Institution for Science · Dec 16, 2020