1 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,460 Unearthing a Cosmic Titan 2 00:00:11,620 --> 00:00:18,900 ESO's Very Large Telescope has uncovered a colossal structure in the early Universe. 3 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:27,900 The discovery is a galaxy proto-supercluster nicknamed Hyperion, observed when the Universe was only 2.3 billion years old. 4 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:35,360 At about 5 million billion times the mass of the Sun, it is the most massive structure known in the early Universe — and the largest. 5 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:42,980 Hyperion has a very complex structure, containing at least 7 high-density regions connected by filaments. 6 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:52,720 Given its immense size so early in the history of the Universe, Hyperion is expected to evolve into something similar to superclusters visible closer to Earth. 7 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,960 Transcribed by ESO; Translated by —