22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
...of the Universe over the last 10 billion years. The map, created by an international collaboration of scientists using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), not only reveals the large-scale structure of the Universe, but it could also help improve our...
03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
...from telescopes dedicated to generating vast data sets on the structure of the Universe such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), Lior Shamir, a computational astronomer and...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... X-ray data from over 7000 quasars, and combining them with UV observations from the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with additional information from NASA’s Chandra and Swift X-ray observatories, the duo set about...
16 June 2021
Astronomers discover the largest rotating objects in the Universe
We know that the Moon spins around our planet, Earth spins around the Sun, and the Solar System spins around the galaxy. But it doesn’t stop there. Stretching 100, 000 light years across, the Milky Way also spins at a whopping 270 kilometers per ...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... that have possibly been mistaken as something else. In the last few years, all-sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae, have been busy finding high energy transient events that are...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
The discovery of very bright quasars, (with luminosities ≥1047 ergs−1, at z ≃ 6*1) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) suggests that some supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as massive as a few times 109 solar masses already existed ...
