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Recent Examples of quasar
The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026
Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions.
—Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Many of those newfound objects were incredibly far away and therefore extremely luminous, but looked so much like stars that they were dubbed quasi-stellar radio sources, or quasars for short.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026
Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions.
—Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Many of those newfound objects were incredibly far away and therefore extremely luminous, but looked so much like stars that they were dubbed quasi-stellar radio sources, or quasars for short.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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Instead, the collapse results in a faint supernova with significant fallback, in which the heavier elements from the star’s core, such as oxygen, are sucked back past the event horizon and trapped in the black hole beneath.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Yet, others reach our planet after being thrust into space in distant supernova explosions (the final blasts of stars that run out of fuel in their cores).—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
13 May 2026
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The source is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the pulsar PSR J1849-0001, located in the constellation Aquila.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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That means a pulsar doesn't have to be perfectly aligned with Earth to be observed via its radio emissions.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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Brighton, Manchester City, Arsenal and Everton all fall into the latter category, and FPL managers should be paying close attention to this variable heading into the final stretch.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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The main booking variable is whether WWE creative uses Backlash to extend Fatu's chase or pull a swerve.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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Located 7,200 light-years away, Cygnus X-1 features not only a black hole — the first one ever identified more than a half-century ago — but a blue supergiant star, its constant companion.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 May 2026
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An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is even larger than astronomers had thought, affecting the motion through space of all the galaxies and galaxy clusters in our corner of the cosmos.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 May 2026
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The project timeline The supercomputer’s construction was kicked off after xAI acquired a 1M sq ft warehouse in Memphis, along with adjacent land, forming the physical footprint for the next phase of the supercluster.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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