Measuring the distant universe in 3-D: BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars

Sunday, May 1, 2011 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light years away – has been constructed by scientists with the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III).

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