Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 09:49am on 27 May 2026,Wednesday Science
Manipuri astrophysicist Ronaldo Laishram has led an international team in discovering a massive 12.6-billion-year-old protocluster, named the “Loktak Protocluster” after Manipur’s famous Loktak Lake. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the discovery sheds light on how galaxies evolved in the early Universe when it was only 1.2 billion years old. Researchers used observations from the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope to study the structure, which contains four connected galaxy concentrations. Laishram said the name honours Manipur’s identity and connects his home state to the wider story of the Universe. (PC: X)
