Astronomers have for the first time detected signs of one of the earliest and least understood eras in the universe, the murky time just before the first stars and quasars flooded the cosmos with light.
Timeline of cosmic history indicates when stars and galaxies formed and the universe reionized, permitting starlight to stream forth. Djorgovski et al.,
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