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Research can answer some of the world’s biggest questions -- how to treat cancer, solve poverty, deal with climate change --but others explore more off-the-wall topics.

Contact: morganls@umich.edu Quasars are extraordinarily distant celestial objects that throw off a massive amount of light, and astrophysicists use them to probe cosmological theories. In some cases, astrophysicists have used them to estimate the rate at which the universe expands, called the Hubble constant. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii’s Institute of Astronomy are suggesting a new way to use them to measure...