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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. astronomy An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and thought to be the most distant objects in the universe.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts

Etymologies

  1. From quasi-stellar radio source. (Wiktionary)
  2. quas(i-stellar) + (st)ar. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “A quasar is a bright object full of energy powered by a black hole.”

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  • “A quasar is a compact region in the center of a massive galaxy surrounding the central supermassive black hole.”

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  • “Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe - a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. supermassive black hole called a quasar located 12 billion light-years from Earth.”

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  • “Second, Hanny's Voorwerp was lit up by a powerful beacon of light called a quasar, which formed as a byproduct of the harsh conditions created by a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.”

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  • “Second, Hanny's Voorwerp was lit up by a powerful beacon of light called a quasar emanating from a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.”

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  • “A quasar is the heart of a galaxy, consisting of a supermassive black hole.”

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  • “A growing black hole, called a quasar, can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist's concept.”

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  • “The quasar is the orange object at the center of the large, irregular-shaped galaxy.”

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  • “A quasar is a star-like object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy.”

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  • “The researchers studied one of the most distant known galaxies, a so-called quasar with the designation J1148+5251.”

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