http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020109/sc/from_dark_to_light_4.html Wednesday January 9 3:40 AM ET By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - An outburst of star formation ended a half billion years of utter darkness following the Big Bang, the theoretical start of the universe, according to a study that challenges old ideas about the birth of the first stars.