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).