Four Years On, New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’ - Quanta Magazine

When astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang, they saw nothing.

When hydrogen atoms first formed, they absorbed and then emitted ambient 21-centimeter radiation at equal rates, which made the clouds of hydrogen that filled the primordial universe effectively invi… [+4716 chars]

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