article_snippet.sent: Victor M. Blanco Telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.
article_snippet.sent: The team at Manchester analysed 130 million separate telescope images of galaxies to make the map.
article_snippet.sent: The process of measuring the galaxies is so complex and time consuming that some of the world's largest supercomputers are needed to do it.
article_snippet.sent: We have to measure the shape of each galaxy - how distorted it is - with extremely high precision, about one part in 1000,' said Dr Joe Zuntz, also of the University of Manchester, who has been making the measurements.
article_snippet.sent: The survey uses the 13ft (four metres) Victor M. Blanco Telescope (middle) located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, outfitted with a newly designed, state-of-the-art Dark Energy Camera (DECam).