JWST proves that black holes really do come before galaxies (opens in new tab)

Everywhere we look in the Universe, in all directions and at all distances, we find the same thing: galaxies. These galaxies come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, and shapes, but nearly all of them — especially the largest, most easily-observed ones — have something in common: they’re full of stars, and they possess a supermassive black holes at their cores. For a long time, scientists have wondered not only where these supermassive black holes came from, but how they got so big even early...