quasar

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Recent Examples of quasar 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 The observations also contain a small sample of quasars, the bright hearts of active galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes, which, because of their incredible luminosity, can be seen even further away. Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quasar
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 May 2025
  • The telescope will also be able to measure an unprecedented number of pulsars—spinning stellar remnants that beam electromagnetic radiation out along their magnetic poles.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2017
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Young Thug has been teasing Uy Scuti — which takes its name from a red supergiant star 5,900 light years away — for about a month now.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Another determinative variable would be how quickly rival countries will seize the opportunity to attract disillusioned investors with favorable tax regimes and strategic incentives.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • There are a lot of variables that go into the mix between the physical maturity, the offensive tools, the character and the body of work can comprise over 100 games at varying levels of competition with different levels of stakes.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The gravitational pull of the star's remains would have been strong enough to crush together protons and electrons to form neutrons, meaning a neutron star is mostly made of neutrons.
    Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 22 May 2025
  • Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025

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