... This gallery of quasar portraits from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a look at their local neighborhoods: the quasars themselves appear as the bright star-like objects with diffraction spikes . ...
... This gallery of quasar portraits from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a look at their local neighborhoods: the quasars themselves appear as the bright star-like objects with diffraction spikes . ...
... 2000 April 19 . Redshift 5.8: A New Farthest Quasar . Credit: Stephen Kent ( FNAL ), SDSS Collaboration . ... Credit: Stephen Kent ( FNAL ), SDSS Collaboration . Explanation: The distance record for a quasar has been broken yet again. ...
... October 23, 1995 . Gamma-Ray Quasars . Credit: NASA , CGRO , EGRET team. ... the center of the false color gamma-ray image above is quasar 3C279, a nondescript, faint, starlike object in the visible sky ...
... 2006 May 24 . A Five Quasar Gravitational Lens . Credit: K. Sharon ( Tel Aviv U. ) and E. Ofek ( Caltech ), ESA , NASA . ... At first glance, it appears that several strangely elongated galaxies and fully five bright quasars exist there. ...
... 2002 October 7 . The Galaxy and the Quasar . Credit: R. Knacke ( Penn State Erie ) et al. , Hubble Heritage Team , NASA . ... Hubble Heritage Team , NASA . Explanation: Is the galaxy in the center connected to the quasar on the upper right? ...
... 2001 September 5 . 3C175: Quasar Cannon . Credit Copyright: Alan Bridle ( NRAO Charlottesville ) VLA , NRAO , NSF . ... Explanation: 3C175 is not only a quasar, it is a galaxy-fueled particle cannon. ...
... This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a quasar known as PKS 2349 (the star-like object near the center) and a galaxy (surrounding fuzzy patch), but the quasar is not at the galaxy's center! ...
... December 2, 1997 . Micro-Quasar GRS1915 Puffs . Credit: R. Spencer ( U. Manchester ) et al., MERLIN , Jodrell Bank . ... material falling toward a black hole collides and heats up, creating an environment similar to a quasar that is far from stable ...