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quasar

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a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts

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Examples of its occurrence include fluctuations in tide and river heights, quasar light emissions, heart beat, firings of single neurons, and resistivity in solid state devices. Source: Internet

In fact, it has been suggested that a quasar could form as the Andromeda Galaxy collides with our own Milky Way galaxy in approximately 3–5 billion years. Source: Internet

If this particular quasar and the Milky Way could be seen side by side at the same distance of one parsec and the Milky Way's stars reduced to a single point, the quasar would be 5 magnitudes (or 100 times) brighter than the Milky Way. Source: Internet

An enormous X-ray jet extends at least a million light years from the quasar. Source: Internet

Four apparent images are actually from the same quasar. Source: Internet

Since it is difficult to fuel quasars for many billions of years, after a quasar finishes accreting the surrounding gas and dust, it becomes an ordinary galaxy. Source: Internet

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