Most Distant Lyman-Continuum Galaxy Found at Cosmic Dawn

AMORE6 is a dwarf galaxy at z=5.725, roughly a billion years after the Big Bang.

It weighs about 440,000 suns and spans only ~30 parsecs — tiny by galaxy standards.

It is one of the strongest Lyman-continuum leaker candidates ever found in the reionization epoch.

The giant cluster Abell 2744 magnified its light, making the faint galaxy visible.

Findings hint that tiny faint galaxies may have done the heavy lifting in lighting up the cosmos.