Lewis Andrews

 

Quasars I - IV - Scientia, April 2023.

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Monsters are being born within the hearts of young galaxies. Quasar jets signalling the birth and hunger of the supermassive black hole at its centre, galactic beacons of great power. Emitting electromagnetic radiation all across the electromagnetic spectrum, these beacons populate the cosmos in their millions.

 

As a result of their extreme brightness, Quasars have become useful to measure distances in the night sky. Because they are so far away, an odd side effect is that they appear to be stationary to our current technologies, with measurements using very-long-baseline interferometry of most being positioned within 0.001 arc second. This process produces results far superior to the best optical measurements.