Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
Wiktionary
- 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
- n. a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
Etymologies
- From quasi-stellar radio source. (Wiktionary)
- 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.”
The Huffington Post: Hubble Snaps Image Of 'Strangely Alive' Space Oddity
“A quasar is a compact region in the center of a massive galaxy surrounding the central supermassive black hole.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A quasar is the heart of a galaxy, consisting of a supermassive black hole.”
“A growing black hole, called a quasar, can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist's concept.”
“The quasar is the orange object at the center of the large, irregular-shaped galaxy.”
“A quasar is a star-like object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy.”
“The researchers studied one of the most distant known galaxies, a so-called quasar with the designation J1148+5251.”
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