Astronomers Discover A Massive Galaxy ‘Shipyard’ In The Distant Universe

Credit: ESA/Herschel and XMM-Newton; NASA/Spitzer; NAOJ/Subaru Telescope; Large Binocular Telescope; ESO/VISTA; Polletta et al. 2021; Koyama et al. 2021

An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a structure thought to be a “protocluster” of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. Located 11 billion light-years from Earth, the observations show the protocluster as it appeared when the universe was 3 billion years old, during an epoch when stars were produced at higher rates in certain regions of the cosmos.

Even galaxies don’t like to be alone. While astronomers have known for a while that galaxies tend to congregate in groups and in clusters, the process of going from formation to friend groups has remained an open question in cosmology.

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