A new paper published in Physical Review Letters has shown how large structures in the distribution of Galaxies in the Universe provide the most precise tests of dark energy and cosmic expansion yet. A section of the three-dimensional map of galaxies Sloan Digital Sky Survey used in this analysis. The rectangle on the far left shows a patch of the sky containing nearly 120,000 galaxies (a small fraction of the total survey). The...

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