QUASARS

Quasars stands for "quasistellar radio sources" are strong radio signals from sources having small angular dimensions.  They were first detected in 1960 by radio astronomers using radio telescopes with high resolution (ability to distinguish the separation of two points).  Quasars are very small, appear to be blue and have absolute magnitudes of -25. (The Sun is +4.83)  So they are extremely bright.  This evidence points to the theory that the "powerhouse of quasar energy is a super massive black hole at the center of the quasar.  The quasar PC1247 + 3406 is the most distant and the brightest object in the known universe.
Quasars have extremely large red shifts.  They are moving away at tremendous rates.  The red shift of PC1247 + 3406 is 4.9 indicates a distance of 13.5 billion light years from Earth.  They are probably at the center of the Universe.  The closest known Quasar is 600 million light years in the radio galaxy Cygnus A.  They also emit tremendous amounts of electromagnetic radiation (energy) at all wave lengths.

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