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Recent Examples of quasar
This effect produced four distinct images of the same quasar in a cross-like pattern around the central galaxy, often referred to as an Einstein Cross.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Among its findings are the measurements of nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Radio quasars are the subclass of black holes that produce the most powerful energy and jets.
—David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
Despite this, however, examining the innermost regions of distant quasars can be challenging to accomplish.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Among its findings are the measurements of nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Radio quasars are the subclass of black holes that produce the most powerful energy and jets.
—David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
Despite this, however, examining the innermost regions of distant quasars can be challenging to accomplish.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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The Doctor used the Vindicator, now a part of the Palace clock, to blast Omega with the power of a billion supernovas, forcing him back into his cage.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
31 May 2025
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Either way, supernovas produce a bevy of elements, from the lighter common ones to the rarer heavier ones.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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The simulation also predicts the possible formation of a rare, hypothetical object known as a black hole pulsar.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
5 June 2025
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But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 May 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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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Per Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a red supergiant star located in the constellation Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
16 Apr. 2025
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Exposing environment variables to unknown inference endpoints off the security team’s radar.—
Anshu Bansal,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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The lab, founded in 1961, is still known worldwide for its computer modeling of the planet that enable scientists to make projections for how climate change may affect global temperatures, precipitation, extreme weather events and other variables.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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These waves may also create detectable radio signals, potentially allowing astronomers to catch two distinct bursts from a single neutron star–black hole collision.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
5 June 2025
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With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
31 May 2025
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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