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IN a recent issue of Nature1 the opinion was expressed that the lack of observed blueshifts for quasars essentially rules out local origin. While this may be a valid objection to some forms of local theory, it is not so for the very local theory in which quasars were ejected a few million years ago from the centre of our Galaxy, the nearest being only a few hundred thousand light years away. Such a distance is consistent with the observed upper limits on proper motion2.
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TERRELL, J. Origin of QSOs. Nature 236, 166 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/236166a0
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