Scientists have developed a new way of measuring precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light years away, using the W. M. Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The method ...

It's not always easy to measure precise distances on the fly with a tape measure. If you want a quick method, Instructables user bfk suggests punching out holes with a hole punch so you can quickly ...

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 ...

Using black holes to measure the universe's rate of expansion Date: April 22, 2013 Source: American Friends of Tel Aviv University Summary: Scientists have developed a method that uses black holes to ...

Astronomers from Tel Aviv, Paris and Beijing maintain that the history of the expanding universe can be traced by watching a certain type of huge black hole. The team, led by Jian-Min Wang of the the ...

The distance from Earth to the black hole lurking at the centre of a distant galaxy has been determined to unprecedented accuracy by astronomers in Denmark, the UK and Japan. As well as giving us a ...

The most fundamental step in understanding the universe is determining the distances to celestial objects. A primary method for measuring distances to other galaxies involves using 'standard ...

Prof. Netzer (Tel Aviv Univesity), along with Jian-Min Wang, Pu Du and Chen Hu of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. David Valls-Gabaud of the Observatoire ...

A team of scientists, led by Dr Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Southampton, have developed a new way of measuring precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light years away, using the ...

A few years ago, researchers revealed that the universe is expanding at a much faster rate than originally believed — a discovery that earned a Nobel Prize in 2011. But measuring the rate of this ...

Certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies can help measure the rate at which our universe is expanding, scientists say. Researchers said radiation emitted in the ...