Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Volume 2Academic Press, 1992 - Physical sciences |
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... QUASARS A surprising cosmological discovery in the early 1960s was that some apparently stellar , pointlike sources of light had enormously high Doppler shifts . The most logical explanation for these high redshifts was that these ...
... QUASARS A surprising cosmological discovery in the early 1960s was that some apparently stellar , pointlike sources of light had enormously high Doppler shifts . The most logical explanation for these high redshifts was that these ...
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... quasars is a larger version of the one postulated for the center of the Milky Way : a giant black hole , with a mass of up to 109 Mo in the case of the most energetic objects . When this giant black hole swallows matter , en- ergetic ...
... quasars is a larger version of the one postulated for the center of the Milky Way : a giant black hole , with a mass of up to 109 Mo in the case of the most energetic objects . When this giant black hole swallows matter , en- ergetic ...
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... quasars and active galactic nuclei . Quasars were discovered in the early 1960s . Until that time their images on photographic plates had been overlooked , having been mistaken for not very interesting dim stars . Closer examination of ...
... quasars and active galactic nuclei . Quasars were discovered in the early 1960s . Until that time their images on photographic plates had been overlooked , having been mistaken for not very interesting dim stars . Closer examination of ...
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