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Astronomers have puzzled over quasars for decades before deciding each is a very active and developing galaxy most likely containing supermassive black holes that formed billions of years ago. This cosmic yin-yang between the darkest and brightest space objects has made understanding quasars difficult.
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www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061005_quasar_anatomy.ht...
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061005_quasar_anatomy.html
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Quasars look like stars, but are much farther away than stars in our galaxy, and they are much brighter. These are point-like sources of radio waves in space, and are also called "quasi-stellar radio sources";
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www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/Quasar.htm
www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/Quasar.htm
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Some scientists even believe that quasars are distant points in space where new matter may be entering our universe. This would make them the opposite of black holes. But this is only conjecture. It may be some time before we really understand these strange objects.
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www.seasky.org/celestial-objects/quasars.html
www.seasky.org/celestial-objects/quasars.html
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9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 1. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe.
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hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/quasar_active-nucleus/
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Cambridge, MA - In the distant, young universe, quasars shine with a brilliance unmatched by anything in the local cosmos. Although they appear starlike in optical telescopes, quasars are actually the bright centers of galaxies located billions of light-years from Earth. ... The gravity of a nearby galaxy bends space,
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www.redorbit.com/news/space/587180/new_picture_of_quasa...
www.redorbit.com/news/space/587180/new_picture_of_quasars_emerges/index.html
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Quasars from Space from ESA?s movie 15 Years of Discovery . More information on the ESA Hubble 15th Anniversary page. ... Topic: Hubble DVD, Quasars ... Duration: 11 sec...
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www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/hst15_quasars_from_s...
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The observation confirms theories that the ultrabright objects known as quasars can ignite during galactic mergers ... If quasar activity were not tied to galaxy interactions, and quasars were simply randomly distributed in space, the chances of observing three quasars so close together would be just 1 in 200 trillion.
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn10915
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Current theories hold that quasars are one type of AGN. ... Albedo Feature - Space and Astronomy Definition - Online Dictionary and Glo... ... Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) - Space and Astronomy Definition - Online...
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space.about.com/od/glossaries/g/quasar.htm
space.about.com/od/glossaries/g/quasar.htm
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Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the peculiar object, the nearby quasar HE0450-2958, which is the only one for which no sign of a host galaxy has yet been detected, have led astronomers to propose that jets coming out from supermassive black holes could form...
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www.redorbit.com/news/video/space/6/how_do_quasars_get_...
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