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THE concentration of absorption and emission redshifts of quasars around a value of 1.95 (ref. 1), and a possible periodicity in the redshifts of quasars and other emission-line objects2, have raised doubts about the cosmological origin of the redshifts. An alternative explanation is that they are comparatively local objects3, though extra-galactic4, and that their redshifts arise mainly from some intrinsic property; gravitational, for example5.
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ROWAN-ROBINSON, M. Local Theory for Quasars. Nature 224, 1094 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241094a0
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