"Did the galaxies form stars or did the stars form galaxies?"
I think the stars formed galaxies. As soon as you have two stars, they exert a gravitational pull on one another, and that's going to lead to galaxy formation, when there are enough stars.
But before you have two stars, you have one star, and that one star is the beginning was the predecessor of the galaxies.
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