Astronomers Find a Massive Galaxy Supercluster in the Early Universe (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Astronomers Find a Massive Galaxy Supercluster in the Early Universe

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early Universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance. It has a mass estimated at a million billion Suns.

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Luis Calçada & Olga Cucciati/ESO

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