An article published in the journal “Physical Review Letters” reports a new estimate of the expansion of the universe based on the large cosmic structures formed by galaxies. A team of researchers led by Dr. Seshadri Nadathur of the British University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) used data about over one million galaxies and quasars collected over a decade by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to create an analysis that provided a measure of the effects of the mysterious dark energy that’s accelerating the expansion of the universe. Adding a new method of its calculation doesn’t necessarily lead to the right value, but can help understand why other methods provide incompatible results and where we might need to expand our knowledge of physics to obtain the right value.