How to Use quasar in a Sentence

quasar

noun
  • As such, quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 2026
  • In other words, this quasar appears older than its years.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 2026
  • This process could be what’s behind changing-look quasars, Kaaz says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Some astronomers believe there are two quasars at the center of the galaxy.
    — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The resultant mergers seem to be five times more likely to be found in quasars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • It was believed that if this happened, a large amount of light would be emitted, which is called a quasar.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 July 2019
  • Gas surrounding a galaxy in the line of sight could absorb some of a quasar’s light.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
  • Blazars are a type of quasar, a form of proto-galaxy found in the early universe.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • And looks of this kind are pretty rare, the quasar's discoverers said.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • The latest quasar image from is yet another reminder of just how vast space is.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The gas should only flatten into a pancake shape once the quasar has matured.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 2026
  • This is the first detection of hidden but bright quasars in the early universe.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps the gamma rays were produced in events that gave rise to the radio outbursts of quasars.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
    — PCMAG, 16 May 2024
  • Like Seyferts and quasars, the majority of their light comes from their very centers.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine a distant light source, like a quasar, that sends light traveling for billions of light-years.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The merging of two supermassive black holes can also produce a bright burst of light called a quasar.
    — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The data suggests that this quasar might hold the remains of one of these types of explosions, researchers say.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, this finding already shows that astronomers have overlooked bright and distant quasars hiding in plain sight.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 16 May 2018
  • Radio quasars are the subclass of black holes that produce the most powerful energy and jets.
    — David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Or at least a lot like quasars from more recent periods in the Universe's history.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2024
  • The telescope was pointed at a quasar, an ultra-bright swirling system of gas around a supermassive black hole.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • By using quasars, the team hoped to overcome the observing bias faced by previous studies.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
  • Whenever the quasar brightened or dimmed, those changes showed up in the multiple images but with tiny delays.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
  • For the new work, Webb was pointed at what's called a quasar, or active galactic nucleus.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
  • These tiny delays depend on the distribution of mass within the lens and the distances between us, the quasar, and the lens.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The supermassive black hole feeding this quasar is 300 million times more massive than our sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Hence the name quasar, an acronym that recognized their starlike properties, and stands for quasi-stellar radio source.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Their spectral fingerprint is also narrower than even narrow-line quasars.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Hot disks of dust and gas swirling down the gravitational drains of monster black holes are what drive quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023

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