{"id":239788,"date":"2026-06-27T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/we-may-have-finally-solved-cosmologys-chicken-or-the-egg-problem"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:11:25","slug":"we-may-have-finally-solved-cosmologys-chicken-or-the-egg-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/we-may-have-finally-solved-cosmologys-chicken-or-the-egg-problem","title":{"rendered":"We may have finally solved cosmology\u2019s chicken-or-the-egg problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-have-finally-solved-cosmologys-chicken-or-the-egg-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist <strong>Leah Crane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/leah-crane\/\">Leah Crane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist Leah Crane By Leah Crane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}