Quasars, short for stellar-like objects, are one of the most powerful and luminous classes of objects in our Universe. A subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), quasars are extremely bright galactic cores that temporarily outshine all the stars in their disks. This is due to supermassive black holes in galactic cores consuming material from their accretion disks, a donut-shaped ring of gas and dust that orbits them.
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