Breakthrough Discovery May Solve the Cosmological Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma

We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-the-egg problem

Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist Leah Crane

Breakthrough Discovery May Solve the Cosmological Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma

Did the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of this Galaxy Form Before the Galaxy Itself? NASA, ESA, STScI, AURA; S. Smartt/Queen’s University Belfast If we consider the musings of the novelist and philosopher Samuel Butler from 1878, stating that “chickens are simply the means by which eggs produce other eggs,” we might parallel this [...] The post Breakthrough Discovery May Solve the Cosmological Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma appeared first on Mon…