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Little Red Dot Abell 2744-QSO1.

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? For decades, the standard response has been that we don’t really know.

Now, an international team of researchers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot a ‘little red dot’ (actually a supermassive black hole) in the early universe that formed before its host galaxy, and without a collapsing star: a finding that upends our understanding of black holes. [news.cam.ac.uk] (See also [www.maatforum.com]) >>

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