Right now astronomers are dealing with their own chicken-and-egg conundrum: Which came first, the galaxy or the big black hole inside it?  Astronomers often estimate the weight of a black hole by using the brightness and width of certain light signals in space coming from hot gas.  Some researchers have argued those methods severely exaggerate the masses of strange " little red dots " in the early universe. Since their discovery by NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope , what they actually are has divided the community: Some think they contain growing black holes; others argue the black holes might be much smaller than they seem — or, might not exist at all.  For the first time, a team took a direct measurement of a little red dot , Abell2744-QSO1, and found that not only were the earlier estimates pretty spot on, but also, the object almost certainly contains an enormous black hole, roughly 50 million times heavier than the sun .  Then the study got weird.  Normally, galaxies and their…