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The new findings describe a galactic battle between the galaxy on the right in the image above, which hosts an actively feeding black hole, a quasar, at its center, and its neighbor on the left, which is being bombarded by intense radiation that disrupts its ability to form new stars.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 May 2025
After three years, it’s studied nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars (super-bright cores at the centers of galaxies) to create the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The scientists found Big Wheel near a quasar, which is a powerful and active supermassive black hole, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
—Larissa G. Capella, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025
This effect produced four distinct images of the same quasar in a cross-like pattern around the central galaxy, often referred to as an Einstein Cross.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 May 2025
After three years, it’s studied nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars (super-bright cores at the centers of galaxies) to create the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The scientists found Big Wheel near a quasar, which is a powerful and active supermassive black hole, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
—Larissa G. Capella, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025
This effect produced four distinct images of the same quasar in a cross-like pattern around the central galaxy, often referred to as an Einstein Cross.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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But while supernovas occur only once, a nova can happen again and again.—
Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Among the Rubin Observatory’s many targets, supernovas are perhaps the most scientifically tantalizing.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Radio signals from space are not an uncommon occurrence; in fact, telescopes pick up signals all the time coming from pulsars, black holes, massive galaxies, stars and various other cosmic phenomena.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 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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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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The red supergiant star Antares will be visible in the night sky on June 10 or 11.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
5 June 2025
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Red Supergiant Stars Many of the stars in the Dragon Arc are red supergiants, similar to Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and Aldebaran in Taurus, both of which are visible now in the eastern night sky immediately after sunset.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Planners juggle thousands of variables, yet one late part or an unexpected route change can unwind months of work.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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There are variables involved with recent Valparaiso graduate Caden Crowell’s next team.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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Gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by the motion of massive objects like black holes or neutron stars.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Such interactions between black holes or neutron stars (compact remnants of exploded massive stars) can be studied through the deflection angle, the energy released through the near miss and the momentum of the objects’ recoil—all of which may be discerned in gravitational waves.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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