blazars
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pluralof blazar.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
blazarnouna type of active galactic nucleus having an extremely bright appearance because of massive jets of radiation directed toward the earth from the disk of dust and gas circling the black hole associated with the galactic nucleus.
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One leading idea is that the neutrino came from a special class of blazars capable of accelerating particles to extreme energies.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Gamma-ray flares from blazars are thought to be the primary events behind neutrino detection in the sky.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
These can be quite volatile, such as blazars, which are AGN that shoot out jets of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023
Scientists have long sought to understand how the jets launched from blazars become so luminous and the behavior of the particles in them.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2022
The other important component of multimessenger astronomy is the detection of neutrinos, which are emitted alongside electromagnetic radiation from astrophysical objects such as blazars.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2019