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Recent Examples of quasar
Once activated, they are called active galactic nuclei, AGN, or quasars.
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Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
Having the tools to shore up your scripts — a better understanding of the nature of quasars, or the wave-particle duality of matter and light — is surely no bad thing.
—Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
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Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
Having the tools to shore up your scripts — a better understanding of the nature of quasars, or the wave-particle duality of matter and light — is surely no bad thing.
—Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for quasar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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The latter helped refine the locations of these pulsars, which are spinning neutron stars.—
John Loeffler,
Space.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Then in 1993, millisecond X-ray pulsars were discovered.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Feb. 2018
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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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After carefully analyzing the colors of each of the stars inside the Dragon Arc, the researchers found many are red supergiants, which are stars in their final stages of life.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
6 Jan. 2025
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Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 Jan. 2025
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Of course, trying to observe finicky birds in remote habitats full of uncontrollable variables may mean that this particular test would not be resolved anytime soon.—
Jason Bittel,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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For improving mental health, these variables seem to have surprisingly weak effects.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
9 Feb. 2025
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With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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That has led to a focus on compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes—especially a class of neutron stars called magnetars—as likely sources.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
22 Jan. 2025
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