Manipur Astrophysicist Ronaldo Laishram Names 12.6-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy Protocluster After Loktak Lake
An international team led by Ronaldo Laishram has discovered a massive structure of young galaxies dating back nearly 12.6 billion years, providing new insight into the evolution of galaxies in the early Universe. The discovery, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, identifies a giant protocluster named the “Loktak Protocluster,” inspired by Loktak Lake — the iconic freshwater lake of Manipur…