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Recent Examples of quasar
Having the tools to shore up your scripts — a better understanding of the nature of quasars, or the wave-particle duality of matter and light — is surely no bad thing.
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Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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This group has analyzed the most recent and most comprehensive observations of type-Ia supernovas and say the evidence is consistent with a model of the universe that isn’t exploding after all.The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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Rubin's wide field of view will enable it to produce alerts for transient events like supernovas or asteroids within 120 seconds, generating 20 terabytes of data each night, ultimately creating the largest astronomical movie ever.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.Matt von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
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This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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For example, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at large.Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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As these emergency travelers make short-notice decisions on when to go, where to stay and when to return, hoteliers are juggling more variables than usual.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Health equity requires a broader approach — one that recognizes and acts on the importance of real life variables like access to nutritious food, stable housing, and transportation.Ann Marie P. Mauro, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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For example, the current model of airspace allocation, based on decades-old frameworks, contrasts sharply with the potential for drone corridors that could populate the skies with the density of a neutron star (OK, slight exaggeration).Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Previously, skepticism surrounded the possibility of a radio burst escaping the intense environment of a magnetar, a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field.Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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