Friday, 15. July 2016
Topic: SCIENCE - on July 15, 2016 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Biggest cosmic map will throw light on ‘dark energy’
An international team of astronomers has created the largest ever three-dimensional map of distant galaxies in a bid to help them understand one of the most mysterious forces in the universe. Scientists including a team led by Dr Florian Beutler at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation have spent a decade collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). This will allow them to make the most precise measurements to date of ‘dark energy’ – the force that is driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.
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