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No, I meant universe. I believe the current models expect that galaxies formed around these SMBHs, not the other way around. After all, if they're collapsing directly from clouds of extremely hot gas, and they have the mass of thousands or millions of stars, it's hard to imagine there were already thousands or millions of stars in the local area not sweeping up or disturbing all that gas.

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