: a region at the center of a galaxy that produces an extremely large amount of radiation
Examples of quasar in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebOnce activated, they are called active galactic nuclei, AGN, or quasars.—Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024 Having the tools to shore up your scripts — a better understanding of the nature of quasars, or the wave-particle duality of matter and light — is surely no bad thing.—Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024 The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.—PCMAG, 16 May 2024 Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023 The quasar sits at the center of a young galaxy and is one of the two most powerful quasars discovered in radio waves in the first billion years after the big bang, according to a Tuesday release.—Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2021 Scarcely 45 minutes later, resident astronomer Elinor Gates has already used light-wavelength data to identify a quasar — the galaxy core where gases and space dust go out in a blaze of luminous glory just before they’re sucked inside a black hole.—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024 Astronomers observed 48 different galaxies that contain quasars and compared them to more than 100 galaxies without them.—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
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