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Nature 421, 329-330 (23 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421329a
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Astronomy: Feeding the first quasars
Laura Ferrarese
Abstract
Quasars, the oldest known objects in the Universe, are powered by gas falling into black holes at their centres. How black holes formed so early in time has been hard to explain, but a new model might have the answer.
The excitement that has, in recent years, accompanied the study of supermassive black holes mirrors the excitement that followed the discovery of quasars in the early 1960s. Quasars — short for 'quasi-stellar objects' — are characterized by a prodigious outpouring of energy: hundreds of times that of a regular galaxy, but produced in a region that is only a few light days or weeks across.
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