It doesn't really matter, GoofBall, you have a 50/50 chance of getting it
right
with your first irrational wild guess.


"BradGuth" wrote in message
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On Apr 16, 7:35 pm, Double-A wrote:
"Do galaxies form first and then a black hole springs up in the
center, or possibly, do galaxies form around an already existing black
hole?"

“The implication is that the black holes started growing first.”

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/01...st-galaxy-or-b...

So, where does the matter come from that forms around the black hole
and creates the galaxy? Does it just condense out of energy? Does
the black hole somehow stress space to cause it to condense into
matter? Or does it just gather it from the extremely sparse
intergalactic void?

Double-A

The age old chicken or egg thing, of whichever came first doesn't
really matter to 99.9999% of humanity or any part of our terrestrial
environment.

I favor that it takes a pair of black holes to start the process of
creating a star. Therefore, the cosmic molecular stuff and perhaps
then black holes have to exist first.

~ BG