Rare Supernova Discovery Ushers in New Era for Cosmology
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 14:32
in Astronomy & Space
With help from a supernova-hunting pipeline based at NERSC, astronomers captured multiple images of a gravitationally lensed Type 1a supernova. This is currently the only one, but if astronomers can find more they may be able to measure Universal expansion within four percent accuracy. Luckily, Berkeley Lab researchers do have a method for finding more.