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27: How to Build a Galaxy

The Supermassive Podcast

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How Does the Black Hole Get There?

How does the black hole get there? Just answer that little one for me. Did a cloud of gas in the early universe collapse to form not quite supermassive? And then a galaxy of stars form around that we don't honestly know. This is the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me astrophysicist Dr Becky Smithers and science journalist Izzy Clark.

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