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		rjrodger on Jan 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many... Visible light was scattering off densely packed electrons up to about 300k years after the Big Bang - so I guess - white.

ben_w on Jan 12, 2023 [–]

White, redshifted so hard it's the blackest black we ever experience.

(I want to add a H2G2 joke here, but I can't figure the right way to reference making God disappear in a puff of logic related to the Babelfish…)

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