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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
Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other?
—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
Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other?
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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The most massive stars will die in a core-collapse supernova, often within merely a few million years after their birth.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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This image depicts the supernova remnant SN 185, found some 8,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the sun's closest sibling, the triple star Alpha Centauri.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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As the pulsar spins, these beams sweep across the cosmos like the beams of light from a lighthouse.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 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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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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And that’s the key variable driving his OPOY odds.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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The most dangerous variable, instructors often say, is not the snowpack.—
Jane Sadowsky,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 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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With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 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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Enterprise customers don't need dedicated GPU superclusters at this scale.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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