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quasars

Short for “quasi-stellar radio sources,” these are very remote but extremely bright objects, thought to be at the hearts of galaxies existing on the fringes of the universe. The first of more than 600 was discovered in 1963.
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The Milky Way, home of Earth and the Solar System, is expected to suffer the same fate as the other galaxies that were destroyed by the collision of their black holes, according to researchers. The astronomers were able to come up with this conclusion after studying a group of quasars.
NYT Syndicate Some of the brightest objects in the universe " quasars " are vanishing rapidly.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Astronomers linked extremely reddened quasars to strong galactic outflowing winds that inhibit star formation in the early universe.
Quasars are considered the brightest and most puzzling objects in the universe.
Both theory and observations have pointed to the existence of a population of quasars shrouded in a thick veil of dust and gas.
Quasars are believed to be the brightest and most energetic objects in the universe.
The researcher said that they used the Doppler shift for light to tell whether the gas in these quasars is moving away from Earth or toward these distant black holes, which have a mass from millions to billions of times that of the Sun.
Quasars are quasi-stellar objects, from which light is extremely shifted toward the red [1-5].
Quasars are intense concentrations of energy believed to be generated by gas and dust swirling around massive black holes.
The most distant known quasars show that some supermassive black holes formed when the universe was merely six percent of its current age, or about 700,000,000 years after the big bang.
Quasars, the most brilliant of cosmic fireworks, appear to shine forth from humdrum galaxies in the early universe and not the giant ones astronomers expected.