Let there be light... The cosmic dark ages were a period that existed up until around 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. When the universe was around 380,000 years old, it had cooled enough to ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

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The scientists will try to separate the “cosmic dark ages” from the “cosmic dawn,” teasing out bubbles of ionized hydrogen within the cold hydrogen of the early universe. ForbesIn Photos ...

Fifty million years or so later, gravity drove the formation of the first luminous objects – stars and black holes – which ended the dark ages and initiated the cosmic dawn. These first stars likely ...

According to the timescape model, the dominance of these voids in the cosmic landscape could explain the observed acceleration without the need for dark energy. The team analyzed the Pantheon+ ...

The cosmic dark ages were a period that existed up until around 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang.