Ep 65: Quasars
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The Problem With Quasars
The majority of quasars are not ones where we're directly in the beam, so to speak. We can still call them quasars, for reasons that I'll come to, but generally they get the name blazars. This is a kind of sloppy way of explaining what's going on. What I meant there, my intention was that we are not privileged. If you were to take a thousand quasars at random from a God's eye view of the universe, you would notice the jets oriented in all possible directions. Some tiny portion of them are pointed right towards the earth. These are the ones that we can see.
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