James Webb Space Telescope beats its own record with potential most distant galaxies

[Admin]

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have potentially smashed the galaxy redshift record by finding galaxies that existed 200 to 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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"The galaxies have been detected using different techniques. Astronomers led by Haojing Yan of the University of Missouri-Columbia used the gravitational lens created by the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723 to detect 88 candidate galaxies beyond a redshift of 11, including a handful estimated to be at a redshift of 20. If validated, these galaxies would be, by far, the most distant ever detected. Because of cosmic expansion, today these galaxies would be over 35 billion light-years away from us."

Yes, and 4D space must be expanding much faster than c velocity too for this interpretation to be accurate. Another item, where is the cosmic dark ages here with redshifts 20 to 25?

 

[Unclear Engineer]

I keep reading two opposite things about the "cosmic dark ages".
One is that the dark ages were created by free electrons, and when those condensed with protons into neutral hydrogen atoms, the free electrons could not longer absorb photons (except at a few specific frequencies) so light began to shine straight through space, instead of being diffused by interactions.

The other is what is stated in this article, which is that the neutral hydrogen must be ionized in order for light to travel straight to us through space.

So, which is it?

And why do we keep seeing these two "theories" repeated over and over in sequential articles in places like Space.com, which are supposed to know these things?