Jump to content

Portal:Astronomy/Picture/26

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
< Portal:Astronomy‎ | Picture

This is the current revision of this page, as edited by JoeNMLC (talk | contribs) at 17:36, 29 June 2021 (create). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

A quasar is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN), in which a supermassive black hole with mass ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun is surrounded by a gaseous accretion disk. Sloan Digital Sky Survey image of quasar 3C 273, illustrating the object's star-like appearance. The quasar's jet can be seen extending downward and to the right from the quasar.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Astronomy/Picture/26&oldid=1031075406"