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Dwarf Galaxies Banished the Darkness and Lit Up the Early Universe


uring the Universe's Dark Ages, dense primordial gas absorbed and scattered light, prohibiting it from travelling. Only when the first stars and galaxies began to shine in energetic UV light did the Epoch of Reionization begin.

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