29 January 2018
Astronomers discover a fossil of the Reionisation era
...after the Big Bang. This is not to be confused with the epoch of Reionisation. This era, from the end of the dark ages to when ...billion years after the Big Bang – the end of the reionisation epoch. The team were also able to constrain that the main ...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... energetic enough to strip the electrons out of the surrounding neutral matter; a Universal event that is recognised as the Epoch of Reionisation. But despite its crucial role in signing the end of the cosmic dark ages, the EoR is one...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... for the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF funds the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR (Epoch of Reionisation) Signature (EDGES) project, the antenna which detected this archaic signal and an instrument that looks much...
03 November 2021
Astronomers spot the most distant detection of water in a star-forming galaxy
... merging and likely going through a burst of star formation. Scientists are seeing SPT0311-58 as it was in the Epoch of Reionization. This epoch occurred at a time when the Universe was just 780 million years old—roughly 5-percent of its...
