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Dr. Ronaldo Laishram has led an international research team in discovering a 12.6-billion-year-old galaxy protocluster, officially named the “Loktak Protocluster.”
Kolkata/New Delhi, Manipur, Northeast India
Who
Dr. Ronaldo Laishram, an international research team, Suman Munshi
What
Dr. Ronaldo Laishram has led an international research team in discovering a 12.6-billion-year-old galaxy protocluster, officially named the “Loktak Protocluster.”
When
Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:35:36 GMT · 4h 25m ago
Where
Kolkata/New Delhi, Manipur, Northeast India ·
Why
This discovery provides astronomers with a rare opportunity to study how the earliest large-scale structures in the Universe began to form.
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How this affects you
This advancement in astronomy provides new insights into the early universe and demonstrates the growing contribution of Indian researchers to frontier astrophysics. The discovery also symbolicly recognizes Manipur on the global scientific map.
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