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The GRANTECAN Discovers the Largest Cluster of Galaxies Known in the Early Universe

A study, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and carried out with OSIRIS, an instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC, or Grantecan), has found the most densely populated cluster of galaxies in the primitive universe. The researchers predict that this structure, which is at a distance of 12.5 billion light-years ...

Troy Oakes

The most densely populated galaxy cluster formation.