The briefing
New early-universe observations with the James Webb Space Telescope suggest some galaxies host central black holes that appear to have formed or grown rapidly ahead of their stellar populations. The findings complicate the traditional view that galaxies formed first and their central black holes grew more slowly over time.
Original headline
Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived fi