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Taste_of_Suburbia ([personal profile] immolate_the_silence) wrote2020-03-21 05:04 pm

quasar tsunamis

I don't think I've ever seen anything more beautiful...

illustration of a dusty swirl of particles spiraling in, with streams of glowing material spewing outward from the center


Quasar Tsunamis Rip Across Galaxies

Find the NASA post HERE.

Basically, they house supermassive black holes and are the brightest cosmic entities in the universe. They are also probably responsible for curbing the size of galaxies, since they devour them, and limiting the creation of new stars, since they also devour the materials that form them. "Anyone witnessing this event would see a brilliant celestial display. 'You'd get a huge light show—like Christmas trees all over the galaxy.'" = Wow, what a description.