The international team timed the phenomenon like a “100-metre sprinter” to record that it travelled at 114,000 kilometres per second – one-third the speed of light.
In this episode, Tom Russell, who led the research, talks through the mysterious jets and how they developed a new way to track them.
Plus, he discusses why the ATCA telescope is still such a pioneering machine and what the future of the research holds.
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