GRB 090423 at a redshift of z ≈ 8.1
2009
Long-duration γ-ray bursts (GRBs), thought to result from the explosions of certain massive stars, are bright enough that some of them should be observable out to redshifts of z > 20. So far, the highest redshift measured for any object has been z = 6.96, for a Lyman-α emitting galaxy. Here, and in an accompanying paper, GRB 090423 is reported to lie at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2, implying that massive stars were being produced and dying as GRBs approximately 620 million years after the Big Bang.
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