"Astronomers have detected an intense flash of radio waves coming from what looks like a merger of galaxies dating to about 8 billion years ago"
A merger of galaxies wouldn't cause that. It would be pretty much a non-event because of immense distances between stars within 2 or more galaxies that are merging. Further, such merger would take many millions of years to its completion.
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