'Eye of Sauron': Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 13:31
in Astronomy & Space
One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute demonstrates that precise distances can be measured using supermassive black holes. The results are published in the scientific journal, Nature.