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  1. Quasar - Wikipedia

    Quasar luminosities can vary considerably over time, depending on their surroundings. Since it is difficult to fuel quasars for many billions of years, after a quasar finishes accreting the surrounding gas and …

  2. Hubble Quasars - NASA Science

    Jun 3, 2025 · Quasars occur when immense amounts of matter fall into a supermassive black hole, spiraling around it in the form of a disk before entering.

  3. Quasar Framework

    Developer-oriented, front-end framework with VueJS components for best-in-class high-performance, responsive websites, PWA, SSR, Mobile and Desktop apps, all from the same codebase. Sensible …

  4. Quasar | Discovery, Structure & Evolution | Britannica

    Feb 2, 2026 · Quasar, an astronomical object of very high luminosity found in the centres of some galaxies and powered by gas spiraling at high velocity into an extremely large black hole.

  5. Quasar – Definition, Formation, Facts in Astronomy

    Oct 29, 2024 · Learn what a quasar is in astronomy, how it forms, types of quasars, and what they tell us about the early universe.

  6. What is a quasar? - EarthSky

    Feb 28, 2021 · What is a quasar? The word quasar stands for quasi-stellar radio source. Quasars got that name because they looked starlike when astronomers first began to notice them in the late …

  7. Quasars — Everything you need to know about the brightest objects in ...

    Oct 19, 2023 · Quasars are the remarkably bright cores of active galaxies in the distant universe, they are an extreme form of what astronomers call "active galactic nuclei", or AGN for short. An active …

  8. Quasar - ESA/Hubble

    Quasars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), extremely luminous galactic cores where gas and dust falling into a supermassive black hole emit electromagnetic radiation across the entire …

  9. What Is a Quasar? The Once-Mysterious Cosmic Object, Explained

    Jun 13, 2023 · Quasars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), according to the European Space Agency (ESA), the hearts of large galaxies which are extremely active and bright. The ESA …

  10. Quasars – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

    An artist's model of a quasar shows the hot disk of gas and dust rotating around a central, supermassive black hole. The magnetic field of this system is so powerful that particles from the disk are carried up …