How to Use quasar in a Sentence

quasar

noun

• Blazars are a type of quasar, a form of proto-galaxy found in the early universe.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
• Gas surrounding a galaxy in the line of sight could absorb some of a quasar’s light.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
• Some astronomers believe there are two quasars at the center of the galaxy.
  — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
• It was believed that if this happened, a large amount of light would be emitted, which is called a quasar.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 July 2019
• This process could be what’s behind changing-look quasars, Kaaz says.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• And looks of this kind are pretty rare, the quasar's discoverers said.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• He and his team began searching for the WHIM by studying its effects on the light from distant quasars.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2018
• These tiny delays depend on the distribution of mass within the lens and the distances between us, the quasar, and the lens.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
• The data suggests that this quasar might hold the remains of one of these types of explosions, researchers say.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
• The latest quasar image from is yet another reminder of just how vast space is.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Oct. 2022
• The merging of two supermassive black holes can also produce a bright burst of light called a quasar.
  — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• The telescope then use ancient quasar light to determine which properties of the photons to measure.(Credit: D. Rauch et al.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2018
• The second one was: What are quasars, and what is their relationship to galaxies?
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Hot disks of dust and gas swirling down the gravitational drains of monster black holes are what drive quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
• Instead of watching for the steady glow of quasars or the speeds of orbiting stars, astronomers can look for brief, bright flares of light from a black hole’s vicinity.
  — Neil Gehrels, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2017
• Our complex universe—chock full of galaxies, black holes and quasars—didn’t just appear after the Big Bang.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• For the new work, Webb was pointed at what's called a quasar, or active galactic nucleus.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
• In fact, this finding already shows that astronomers have overlooked bright and distant quasars hiding in plain sight.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 16 May 2018
• The telescope was pointed at a quasar, an ultra-bright swirling system of gas around a supermassive black hole.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
• By using quasars, the team hoped to overcome the observing bias faced by previous studies.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• In this case, the light is coming from a quasar — the nucleus of a galaxy with a swirling black hole — that emits powerful radiation in the distance.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
• In this case, the light is coming from a quasar - the nucleus of a galaxy with a swirling black hole - which emits powerful radiation in the distance.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The supermassive black hole feeding this quasar is 300 million times more massive than our sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• That jet of particles is called a quasar; quasars with particle jets aimed directly at the Earth are extremely bright and are called blazars.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
• That jet of particles is called a quasar; quasars with particle jets aimed directly at the Earth are extremely bright and are called blazars.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
• Other astronomers had spotted strange sources of radio waves known as quasars at enormous distances — two-thirds of the way back to the universe’s beginning.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
• The farthest galaxy — a special type of very bright galaxy with a gigantic black hole at its center, known as a quasar — is about 15 billion light-years from Earth.
  — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021
• Many of the quasar measurements are accurate to about a hundred-millionth of a degree—smaller than the apparent size of a basketball on the Moon.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 24 Nov. 2020
• After hundreds of millions of years, young stars or quasars emitted enough light to strip the electrons back off these atoms, dissipating the cosmic fog like mist at dawn.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2017
• These precursors wouldn’t quite be quasars, but galaxies with somewhat smaller black holes on their way to becoming quasars.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024