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How is a quasar created?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Quasars, or "Quasi-stellar radio objects", are incredibly distant, extraordinarily bright radio sources. Because they are so distant, we're looking "back in time" to see them as they were billions of years ago.

We believe that quasars are - or were - active galactic nuclei, when the galaxies were forming their central supermassive black holes. If we could look back in time by 5 billion years, we would probably see a similar occurance here in the Milky Way. And if we could see those quasars as they are today - instead of seeing the light and radiation that they were generating when that light was new - we'd probably see that the object was a fairly ordinary galaxy with an "ordinary" super-massive black hole at the center.

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11y ago

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