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Recent Examples of quasar
Perhaps the gamma rays were produced in events that gave rise to the radio outbursts of quasars.
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Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
Studies of quasars also have plenty more to say, notes Simcoe of MIT, who wrote with colleagues about quasars in the early universe in the 2023 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
Studies of quasars also have plenty more to say, notes Simcoe of MIT, who wrote with colleagues about quasars in the early universe in the 2023 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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Identifying details in pre-explosion images can help inform the how, when and why supernovas occur.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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Over five years, their telescope in the Chilean Andes snapped high-resolution photographs of 12% of the sky, creating the most extensive catalog of supernovas to date and locating the same spherical shells traced out by many millions of galaxies (albeit with less precision than DESI).—
Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
19 Mar. 2025
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Luckily for scientists, this rapid spin and its precise frequency make pulsars excellent timing mechanisms.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Among other things, it is expected to be able to hunt for the universe’s first stars, search for signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence, and enable the detection of new pulsars—the spinning remnants of dead stars—in our galaxy and others.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Sep. 2016
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This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.—
Tom Howarth,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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There’s obviously a lot of unknown variables this year, Marks said, with tariffs being at the forefront along with worries about an economic slowdown.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
19 Mar. 2025
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Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial — a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients.—
Stephen Ornes,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
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But those findings have yet to be linked to a white dwarf, a neutron star, or another source.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Like all neutron stars, magnetars are formed when massive stars run out of their fuel for nuclear fusion.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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