FRB

And coming from a location that dates halfway back to the Big Bang, it also was the farthest known FRB spotted to date.

Using images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers traced the FRB back to not one galaxy but a group of at least seven galaxies.

Such groups of galaxies are rare and possibly led to conditions that triggered the FRB.

"Without the Hubble's imaging, it would still remain a mystery as to whether this FRB originated from one monolithic galaxy or from some type of interacting system," said Northwestern's Alexa Gordon, who led the study.

When FRB 20220610A originated, the universe was just 5 billion years old.