A feature in astronomical spectrometry of distant light, caused by the Reionization Era's absorption of UV light, leaving a gap in the spectrum.
Origin
From the theoreticians who predicted this effect, astronomers James E. Gunn (astronomer) and Bruce Peterson (astronomer), which creates an lack of radiation at a span of wavelengths.
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