{"id":110227,"date":"2020-07-20T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astrophysicists-fill-in-11-billion-years-of-the-universes-expansion-history"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:52:18","slug":"astrophysicists-fill-in-11-billion-years-of-the-universes-expansion-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astrophysicists-fill-in-11-billion-years-of-the-universes-expansion-history","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of the universe\u2019s expansion history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uhj-KjDm4iw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released today a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever created, filling in the most significant gaps in our possible exploration of its history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know both the ancient history of the universe and its recent expansion history fairly well, but there\u2019s a troublesome gap in the middle 11 billion years,\u201d says cosmologist Kyle Dawson of the University of Utah, who leads the team announcing today\u2019s results. \u201cFor five years, we have worked to fill in that gap, and we are using that information to provide some of the most substantial advances in cosmology in the last decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new results come from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), an international collaboration of more than 100 astrophysicists that is one of the SDSS\u2019s component surveys. At the heart of the new results are detailed measurements of more than two million galaxies and quasars covering 11 billion years of cosmic time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released today a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever created, filling in the most significant gaps in our possible exploration of its history. \u201cWe know both the ancient history of the universe and its recent expansion history fairly well, but there\u2019s a troublesome gap [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}