Guanajuato, Gto., September 23, 2016.- Researchers and students from the postgraduate of the Division of Science and Engineering at University of Guanajuato (UG) participate with more than 300 specialists all over the world in creating the biggest 3D map of the universe known so far.

The project Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) seeks to create a 3D map with the position of 30 million galaxies and other objects called quasars. This international research is the continuation of a series of projects and research of the last decades in the area of Cosmology, the science that studies the universe.

In this project participate two researchers from UG, Dr. Gustavo Niz Quevedo and Dr. Luis Arturo Ureña López. In addition, a group of postgrad students that sum to the project with other researchers from universities such as the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ) and the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav).

In an interview with Dr. Gustavo Niz Quevedo, he pointed out that this international project pretends to use first level technology and creative ideas to understand what the universe is made of, which is its origin, its development and predict the future.

He commented that we actually which are the components that make the universe: 5% corresponds to the matter used to every day; 25% dark matter, which is very similar to the matter we human being are made of, but doesn't interact, hence, it only infers through gravitational attraction. Finally, the last component refers to dark energy and is equal to a 70% of the universe.

"We are talking about the largest component in the universe and we don't have a clue of what it is. We have much less control of dark energy and we only know that it is the cause for the universe to expand", held the researcher.

In this context, DESI's project seeks to find details of this dark energy. This will be carried on with the help of high technology located in the facilities of the Mayal telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona. Five thousand optic fibers compose it, and will capture the spectrums of galaxies to form the biggest 3D map known so far.

It is important to mention that currently, the project is in the phase "make science," it means, know the conditions to work under to have the minor margin error in the mapping. Hence, it will be until 2019 that the necessary data will be taken, to have a better panorama.

Finally, the researcher commented that among the theories that have been found on this component, it could be about a new particle or the General Theory of Albert Einstein would be incorrect to understand the universe. Nevertheless, the added, these are only intuitions so far, hence, they expect the project to return better results.