Without any detailed observations of
what reionization looked like, many models of the early universe «just kind of pick one time and say, «The universe is reionized now!»
Not exact matches
In addition to emitting visible light, the stars also gave off ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which split the neutral hydrogen it encountered into electrons and protons — ionizing it once again, and thereby launching
what researchers call the «epoch of
reionization.»
One finalist, the Spectro - Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of
Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), will map galaxies across a large volume of the universe to find out
what drove inflation, a pulse of impossibly fast expansion just after the big bang.
This suggests that this quasar comes from well within the epoch of
reionization, and further analysis of it could yield insight into
what happened during this pivotal time.
Much remains unknown about the epoch of
reionization, such as
what sources of light caused
reionization.
Cosmic
reionization started out as a flashlight revealing
what was out in the darkness.
This era of
reionization, when the first condensed sources of matter were formed, is
what scientists hope to study using these ancient quasars.