[Dragon Star]

Originally Posted by Nokton

Indeed Dragon, but correct me if I am wrong. Does not the
formation of a SMBH first create the quasar? The massive gas cloud
surrounding the new black hole is drawn into it. The intense gravity of
the black hole heats up the gas to intense temperature, so a quasar
is born. Then after the BH has gobbled up the surrounding gas, it goes quiet, the quasar is no more. But in gobbling the gas field around it, the
BH produces a bow wave, so to speak, which triggers tubulence in the
gas field far beyond its gravitational influence, producing star formation,
that then becomes a galaxy...
Dragon, am not entirely happy with current thinking on a black hole as
containing a singularity, whatever that may represent.......
Am driven to the conclusion that once matter is compressed beyond a
certain limit, it reverts to its original state, the state is was when the
Big Bang occured, a soup of fundamental particals.
Please tell me your thoughts and opinions.
Nokton.

Current thinking goes as this:

Quasar's are driven by SMBH's, and too keep their typical luminosity, they must consume at least 10 solar masses of material every year, and can consume as much as 1000 solar masses per year. A quasar would not continue to feed at that rate of 10 billion years, which explains why there are no nearby quasars. In this idea, after a quasar finishes eating up gas and dust, it becomes an ordinary galaxy.

Now, one characteristic of quasars is that they show evidence of elements heavier than helium. This means that galaxies underwent a HUGE phase of star formation creating population III stars between the time of the Big Bang and the first observable quasars. If no evidence for these stars is found and no alternatives are found for creating the heavier elements, this may seriously hurt the current views of the universe.