• darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    I was expecting it to be within the first few millions of years but the article says first fraction of a second. As a normie, this is brain-breaking stuff for me.

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      5 days ago

      I’ve always wondered why they wouldn’t form. Matter in the new universe was not evenly distributed after the big bang. Why shouldn’t some of these lumps have been massive enough to collapse into a black hole before inflation spread it all out?