Supervoids are some of the largest, emptiest regions of space in the entire Universe. Their very existence proves that the expansion of the Universe must be accelerating; by studying them we can therefore probe the mysterious dark energy…
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Krishner et al. (1981) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1981ApJ...248L..57K&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf
Kopylov et al. (1988) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1988IAUS..130..129K
Riess et al. (1998) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9805201.pdf
Keenan, Barger & Cowie (2013) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2884.pdf
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My sister made the frame in the background as a present when I passed my PhD. It's not a real certificate. It's a decorative frame in my office which I love. My sister does commissions if anyone else wants one: https://megansmethurstdesign.wordpress.com/work/
We're moving house soon so I'm hoping to get more prints to decorate my new office! If you have any recommendations let me know in the comments.
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Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
http://drbecky.uk.com