Glossary · term
Reionization
Cosmology
- Aliases
- reionized, reionize
- Domain
- Cosmology
Definition
The stripping of electrons back off intergalactic hydrogen by the first stars and quasars, between about 150 million and a billion years — the universe's second, and final, phase change.
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