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#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Origins of the Supermassive Black Hole

We know that they are there. But how do we get there? We had a little galaxy that just sort of, I don't know, had some small number of stars. It was a first gravitationally bound structure that was held together by dark matter. And somewhere in that process, there must have been a seed for one of these supermassive black holes.

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