What are the cosmic dark ages and what do we know about them? Why are the so hard to study? How can the Dark Age Explorer help with it and why does it need to go on the far side of the Moon? Finding out in this interview.

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🟣 Guest: Dr Christiaan Brinkerink

https://www.ru.nl/en/externals/services/radboud-radio-lab

📜 The Dark Ages Explorer (DEX): a filled-aperture ultra-long wavelength radio interferometer on the lunar far side

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03418

00:00 Intro

02:31 Cosmic dark ages

14:23 21cm line

19:03 Current instruments

25:00 Dark Ages Explorer

41:20 Science objectives

50:47 Working with EHT

58:09 Current obsessions

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