Quasars or quasi-stellar radio sources are the most energetic and distant members of a class of objects called active galactic nuclei (AGN). Quasars are extremely luminous and were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that appeared to be similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxies. They cannot escape a black hole. Only Hawking Radiation can escape a black hole.
Material in a quasar is ejected away from the black hole, but that material never crosses the event horizon. Nothing that crosses the event horizon can ever escape.
Super-massive black hole and an accretion disk
Twin Quasar was created in 1979.
Super heated to remove excessive moisture
The size of a quasar can be inferred from the timescale of variations in its light output. Assuming that no signal can travel across the source faster than the speed of light, the time scale of the fastest variations sets an upper limit on the size of the quasar (i.e., size quals approximately the variation timescale times speed of light). An alternative method called 'reverberation mapping' monitors changes in the quasar's light output, then looks for these same changes in the light output from specific spectral lines. The delay times the speed of light gives the size of the quasar.
Material in a quasar is ejected away from the black hole, but that material never crosses the event horizon. Nothing that crosses the event horizon can ever escape.
A quasar is a lot like a black hole, in that it was once a star. There are many spikes that do project from the center of the quasar. These are optical spikes. they are like a glare that the telescopes see when they look at a star. if you look at the sun off of a mirror, you can see the same optical spikes from the sun. It is basically a You can also see another line that extends from both sides of the quasar. These lines that you see are actually super heated gas that has been shot out from the center of the quasar. These streams extend many light-years away from the quasar. If you want to learn more, look at some of the Hubble pictures of quasars.
The Question, Quasar.
Yes, a quasar is a galaxy with a super-massive black hole in its center. The hole being invisible, all light vanishing from the great gravity. The quasar itself, among the brightest, most luminous objects in the universe, is being powered by an accretion disc around the black hole.
A geyser is super heated water from under the ground.
A blazar is a compact quasar, associated with a super-massive black hole at the centre of an active galaxy.
Super-massive black hole and an accretion disk
It is not.
Immeasurably more brilliant. A quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) is as bright as some entire GALAXIES. We believe that a quasar is an actively-expanding super-massive black hole, and that these black holes may exist in the centers of many or most large galaxies - including our own Milky Way.
Freaking epic
Quasar Padamsee was born in 1978.
Twin Quasar was created in 1979.