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Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Paradox with Matt O’Dowd

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The Differences Between a Quasar and a Quasar

We get many quasars, but they're all far away because nearby galaxies ate their gas. The nearest one is the Cygnus X-1 black hole, which is about a thousand light years away. But there could be galaxies that are quasars for some parts of the universe and not for others. And so we don't even have a galaxy that would have been one close to us.

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