Brian Lemaux and Professor Lori Lubin of UC Davis Physics were part of an international team that has "discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang."

From the UC Davis News article:

"An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.

The team that made the discovery was led by Olga Cucciati of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Bologna, Italy, and project scientist Brian Lemaux in the Department of Physics, College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and included Lori Lubin, professor of physics at UC Davis. They used the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, to identify a gigantic proto-supercluster of galaxies forming in the early universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang."

Read the full article on the UC Davis News website here!

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/astronomers-find-cosm...