Meaning Of The Word Quasar

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quasar
countable noun: A quasar is an object far away in space that produces bright light and radio waves.

quasar in American English
any of a number of starlike celestial objects that emit immense amounts of light and, often, radio waves, characterized by having spectral lines with very large redshifts: quasars are thought to be the most distant and oldest observable objects in the uni
noun: one of numerous extremely luminous extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts

quasar in British English
noun: any of a class of extragalactic objects that emit an immense amount of energy in the form of light, infrared radiation, etc, from a compact source. They are extremely distant and their energy generation is thought to involve a supermassive black hole loca

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