4. The Dark Ages
TIMELINE · millions of starless years
After the first light came a long, deep darkness: no stars, no galaxies, just slowly cooling hydrogen drifting through black space for a hundred million years and more. Yet in the dark, gravity was patiently at work, pulling gas into ever denser clumps. The dark ages were not empty time; they were the universe holding its breath.
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