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Quasar complexity simplified

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An analysis of a sample comprising some 20,000 mass-accreting supermassive black holes, known as quasars, shows that most of the diverse properties of these cosmic beacons are explained by only two quantities. See Letter p.210

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  1. Michael S. Brotherton is in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA.,

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