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News | 06.20.2012

Most quasars live on snacks, not large meals

Astronomers are uncovering an underlying population of fainter quasars in the distant universe that thrive in normal-looking spiral galaxies and are triggered by black holes consuming a batch of gas or the occasional small satellite galaxy....

By STScl, Baltimore, Maryland, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Published: June 20, 2012

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Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) NASA/ESA/Yale; (background) NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)

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