Astronomy Professors use the Dark Energy Survey for New Discoveries

The Dark Energy Survey recently finished with observations (taken over 6 years and cataloging hundreds of millions of galaxies), and Illinois astronomers (including Profs. Athol Kemball, Xin Liu, Paul Ricker, Yue Shen, and Joaquin Vieira) are using this large data for new exciting science results, such as discovering close binary supermassive black holes in the center of distant galaxies. Read the full article here