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Quasar : J0529-4351

Kumari Sonali

Quasar : J0529-4351

An international team of astronomers said the recently discovered quasar named J0529-4351 was the brightest and fastest-growing quasar discovered so far and had a supermassive black hole about 17 billion times the mass of the Sun.

  • Quasar is an extremely active and luminous type of active galactic nucleus (AGN).
  • An AGN is nothing more than a supermassive black hole that is active and feeding at the centre of a galaxy.
  • All quasars are AGNs, but not all AGNs are quasars.
  • Quasars are thought to form in regions of the universe where the large-scale density of matter is much higher than average.
  • They are among the most luminous, powerful, and vibrant objects known in the universe.

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