Under the direction of Brent Tully, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, an international team of researchers has just discovered an immense bubble of galaxies that, according to an article recently published in 'The Astrophysical Journal', could be a fossil remnant of the Big Bang itself. . Tully and his team unexpectedly found the bubble, which is 820 million light years away and about 1 billion light years wide. The gigantic structure, twice the size of Laniakea, the supercluster to which we belong, is located within a wide galactic network and has been named Ho'oleilana, a term from the Hawaiian creation song Kumulipo meaning 'murmurs of awakening' . The… See more
