The significance of the recent 'baby pictures' showing the universe when it was just 380,000 years old

The significance of the recent 'baby pictures' showing the universe when it was just 380,000 years old

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy from the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans.

Researchers have found a galaxy that is considered the earliest evidence of cosmic reionization, the moment when the universe first became illuminated after a period of darkness since the Big Bang.

The collaboration of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, has recently produced the clearest images to date of the childhood of the universe since the first cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring the light that has traveled for nearly 14 billion years to reach a telescope [...]