New findings from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration may have just unveiled the sharpest images of the universe as an infant. After measuring light that traveled 13 billion light years to Earth, the images reveal the universe at about 380,000 years old — the equivalent of an image of a human baby only mere hours old.
The new findings come from several international pre-peer-reviewed studies, set to be presented later in March 2025. According to the study researchers, this view of the universe is the earliest cosmic time currently available to humans.