The Large Millimeter Telescope (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Large Millimeter Telescope

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Astronomers at UMass Amherst and in Mexico, using the Large Millimeter Telescope located on the summit of a 15,000-foot extinct volcano in Mexico's central state of Puebla, have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe, born witin the first one billion years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest object ever detected by the LMT.

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