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

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

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space counterparts, to zero in on a dwarf galaxy that bucked the trend, rebooting its ...

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 ...

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 ...

estimated to have a mass around 200 million times that of the sun, existed in a vital cosmic period known as the "epoch of reionization." The cosmic dark ages were a period that existed up until ...