quasars

1. The most distant galaxies seen from the Earth, believed to be the first stage in the evolution of galaxies. The name is short for “quasi-stellar radio source.”

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The new results confirm earlier observations in which researchers studied quasars, the extremely bright centers of distant galaxies where supermassive black holes consume matter and emit enormous amounts of energy.

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Astronomers just found a record-breaking group of quasars in the most bizarre spot in the Universe!

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Some supermassive black holes can become quasars – some of the brightest objects in the cosmos.

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The complex analysis used nearly 6 million galaxies and quasars and lets researchers see up to 11 billion years into the past.

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MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe.

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