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epistasis 2 days ago

> “The most plausible explanation seems to be [that] the black hole developed before the galaxy,” said Marta Volonteri (opens a new tab), a theorist at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics who helped with the new analysis of QSO1.

For those that like science communication in video form, Becky Smethurst's YouTube channel has a ton of great info on super massive blackholes, and cosmology in general, from a practitioner in the field. Here's one from a month ago about the evidence (then) for whether super massive black holes or galaxies came first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9yDWbilIG4

The science appears to be moving very quickly with all the new info from JWST.