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Robert Lea

Did monster black holes or galaxies come first? The James Webb Space Telescope may have a surprise answer

An illustration shows the magnetic fields of an early supermassive black hole driving star formation.

"What came first, the galaxy or its monster black hole?" 

Technically, it's an even more ancient riddle than the one about the chicken or the egg — though we've only relatively recently become aware of it. And, according to new research, scientists may finally have an answer. 

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