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Felipe Menanteau

2019

Felipe Menanteau, Robert Gruendl, Donald Petravick, Erin Sheldon (2019): Assembling a Map of the Universe: Shapes and Mass Distribution for the Dark Energy Survey, 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp50-51

Researchers map dark matter and dark energy in space


Aug 8, 2017

New measurements from data processed at the University of Illinois verify the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark energy, which is causing the accelerating expansion of the universe and makes up 70 percent of the universe’s contents. The new results come from data from the first year of observations of the Dark Energy Survey. These measurements of the amount and distribution of dark matter in the present-day cosmos were made with a precision that, for the first time, rivals that of measurements of the early universe captured by the European Space Agency's orbiting Planck observatory.


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