How to Use quasar in a Sentence

quasar

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  • Blazars are a type of quasar, a form of proto-galaxy found in the early universe.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Gas surrounding a galaxy in the line of sight could absorb some of a quasar’s light.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
  • Some astronomers believe there are two quasars at the center of the galaxy.
    — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • It was believed that if this happened, a large amount of light would be emitted, which is called a quasar.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 July 2019
  • This process could be what’s behind changing-look quasars, Kaaz says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • And looks of this kind are pretty rare, the quasar's discoverers said.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • He and his team began searching for the WHIM by studying its effects on the light from distant quasars.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2018
  • These tiny delays depend on the distribution of mass within the lens and the distances between us, the quasar, and the lens.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The data suggests that this quasar might hold the remains of one of these types of explosions, researchers say.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The latest quasar image from is yet another reminder of just how vast space is.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The merging of two supermassive black holes can also produce a bright burst of light called a quasar.
    — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The telescope then use ancient quasar light to determine which properties of the photons to measure.(Credit: D. Rauch et al.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The second one was: What are quasars, and what is their relationship to galaxies?
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Hot disks of dust and gas swirling down the gravitational drains of monster black holes are what drive quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Instead of watching for the steady glow of quasars or the speeds of orbiting stars, astronomers can look for brief, bright flares of light from a black hole’s vicinity.
    — Neil Gehrels, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Our complex universe—chock full of galaxies, black holes and quasars—didn’t just appear after the Big Bang.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • For the new work, Webb was pointed at what's called a quasar, or active galactic nucleus.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, this finding already shows that astronomers have overlooked bright and distant quasars hiding in plain sight.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 16 May 2018
  • The telescope was pointed at a quasar, an ultra-bright swirling system of gas around a supermassive black hole.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • By using quasars, the team hoped to overcome the observing bias faced by previous studies.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
  • In this case, the light is coming from a quasar — the nucleus of a galaxy with a swirling black hole — that emits powerful radiation in the distance.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
  • In this case, the light is coming from a quasar - the nucleus of a galaxy with a swirling black hole - which emits powerful radiation in the distance.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The supermassive black hole feeding this quasar is 300 million times more massive than our sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
  • That jet of particles is called a quasar; quasars with particle jets aimed directly at the Earth are extremely bright and are called blazars.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
  • That jet of particles is called a quasar; quasars with particle jets aimed directly at the Earth are extremely bright and are called blazars.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Other astronomers had spotted strange sources of radio waves known as quasars at enormous distances — two-thirds of the way back to the universe’s beginning.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
  • The farthest galaxy — a special type of very bright galaxy with a gigantic black hole at its center, known as a quasar — is about 15 billion light-years from Earth.
    — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Many of the quasar measurements are accurate to about a hundred-millionth of a degree—smaller than the apparent size of a basketball on the Moon.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 24 Nov. 2020
  • After hundreds of millions of years, young stars or quasars emitted enough light to strip the electrons back off these atoms, dissipating the cosmic fog like mist at dawn.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2017
  • In the quasar spectra data, the Lyman alpha forest’s hydrogen clouds were just the most rarefied and chemically the purest.
    — Ann Finkbeiner, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019

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