Quasars

April 28, 2023

Quasars — the brightest and the most powerful objects in the universe — have a violent origin story.
A recent study revealed that merger of galaxies ignites quasars.
Quasars are very bright, distant and active supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times mass of the
The quasi-stellar radio sources (Quasars) were first discovered six decades ago.
Typically located at the centers of galaxies, they feed on infalling matter and unleash torrents of radiation.
A quasar’s light outshines that of all the stars in its host galaxy combined.
Most quasars are larger than our solar system.
A quasar is approximately 1-kilo parsec in width.
- 1 parsec is a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.26 light years.