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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2012, Article ID 853701, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2012/853701 Review Article Clustering of X-Ray-Selected AGN N. Cappelluti,1, 2 V. Allevato,3 and A. Finoguenov2, 4 1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, INAF, Via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy 2 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA 3 Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik and Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstrasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany ¨ 4 Max-Planck-Institute fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to N. Cappelluti, nico.cappelluti@oabo.inaf.it Received 30 August 2011; Revised 1 December 2011; Accepted 26 January 2012 Academic Editor: Angela Bongiorno Copyright © 2012 N. Cappelluti et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The study of the angular and spatial structure of the X-ray sky has been under investigation since the times of the Einstein X- ray Observatory. This topic has fascinated more than two generations of scientists and slowly unveiled an unexpected scenario regarding the consequences of the angular and spatial distribution of X-ray sources. It was first established from the clustering of sources making the CXB that the source spatial distribution resembles that of optical QSO. It then became evident that the distribution of X-ray AGN in the Universe was strongly reflecting that of Dark Matter. In particular, one of the key results is that X-ray AGNs are hosted by dark