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Why quasars are dimming

Quasars, the luminous beacons at the centers of distant galaxies, have puzzled astronomers for decades with their dramatic brightness variations. Recent observations suggest that these celestial ...
By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...
Indian astronomers have discovered a cluster of quasars that spout jets of matter that extend out for 7.2 million light-years — many times bigger than our own galaxy. The mind-bending study was ...
When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar. So says Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a key member of an ...
ASTRONOMERS have identified 53 previously unknown quasars powered by supermassive black holes whose jets hurl matter at nearly the speed of light. These extraordinary jets extend up to 7.2 million ...
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