For decades, astronomers have worked on the assumption that galaxies came first. In the conventional picture, stars form within galaxies, exhaust their fuel and collapse into black holes, which ...
A black hole weighing roughly 100 million times the mass of our Sun had no business existing when the universe was barely 570 million years old. Yet there it is, buried inside a tiny, reddened galaxy ...
For decades, astronomers have believed that galaxies came first and black holes came later. In the traditional picture, stars form inside a galaxy, some of those stars eventually collapse into black ...
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form ...