{"id":214802,"date":"2025-05-26T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/we-now-know-what-switched-the-lights-on-at-the-dawn-of-time"},"modified":"2025-05-26T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:07:32","slug":"we-now-know-what-switched-the-lights-on-at-the-dawn-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/we-now-know-what-switched-the-lights-on-at-the-dawn-of-time","title":{"rendered":"We Now Know What Switched The Lights on at The Dawn of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-now-know-what-switched-the-lights-on-at-the-dawn-of-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early Universe.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that flared to life, clearing the fog of murky hydrogen that filled intergalactic space. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07043-6\">paper<\/a> about the research was published in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis discovery unveils the crucial role played by ultra-faint galaxies in the early Universe\u2019s evolution,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/esawebb.org\/news\/weic2405\/?lang\">said astrophysicist Iryna Chemerynska<\/a> of the Institut d\u2019Astrophysique de Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early Universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that flared to life, clearing the fog of murky hydrogen that filled intergalactic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}