quasar

[ UK /kwˈe‍ɪzɑː/ ]
[ US /ˈkweɪzɑɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
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How To Use quasar In A Sentence

  • By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
  • It is the biggest black hole in the known universe and powers the brightest quasar in the cosmos. Times, Sunday Times
  • I read up on interstellar objects and astrophysics and studied quasars, pulsars and supernovas, but my main focus was black holes.
  • However, there are larger explosions, notably those that go on in the middle of active galactic nucleii, like quasars.
  • In essence the galaxy is eclipsing the quasar, but paradoxically its gravitational lens effect brightens the light received from the latter.
  • Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals.
  • In order to be visible at all at the huge distances implied by their redshifts, quasars must produce prodigious amounts of energy.
  • Now, of course, I knew that most astronomers think a quasar is a black hole with matter falling into it from an accretion disk, and that for some reason it is ejecting charged particles along its magnetic poles.
  • In this paper a statistical investigation has been made on the redshift-magnitude relation of quasars with radio components structure.
  • The astronomers speculate that quasars were ignited as blackholes grew by swallowing large quantities of cold, dense gas.
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