Black Holes in Central Park
Pale Blue Pod
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The Quasar and the Blasar
These these relativistic jets are only in the most powerful black holes that we call active galactic nuclei or AGN. Active galactic nuclei are black holes that are so massive and so powerful that they are accreting a lot of material, which gives them these powerful relativistic Jets. It also gives black holes like these these winds that shoot off of it kind of like the solar wind that comes off of our sun and other stars. But there's you might have heard the terms quasar and blasar. Quasar, yes. Blasar sounds like a weird twin brother.
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