Ancient Gamma-Ray Burst is Most Distant Object Ever Seen

Astronomers have recorded the light of a gamma-ray burst, which they believe comes from the oldest, and most distant object ever observed in the universe. At 13 billion light-years away, the burst occurred when the universe was just five per cent of its current age, or 630 million years old. This provides the first evidence that the young universe, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, was already home to exploding stars and black holes