Washington, April 23: Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date, in the form of water vapor contained in a jet ejected from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.
Dr. John McKean of the Netherlands Institute has made the discovery for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON).
The water emission is seen as a maser, where molecules in the gas amplify and emit beams of microwave radiation in much the same way as a laser emits beams of light.