blazar
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- noun
- /ˈbleɪzɑr/
- Specialized
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blazar
- Assistance of 'cosmic fog' has been to locate them indirectly, with the help of more numerous gamma-ray sources: the blazars (highly active galactic nuclei with a central supermassive black hole).
- blazars and quasars
- blazar jet
- rays from blazars
Examples
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Astronomers observed a distant blazar emitting powerful beams of light toward Earth.
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The largest single class of sources seen by the LAT is blazars, AGNs for which the relativistic jets happen to be beamed within a few degrees of our direction.
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The results, including rapid flaring seen on time scales of hours as well as evolution extending over years, show that blazars exhibit significant diversity.
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So does the frequent absence of broadband correlated variability in non-orphan blazar flares.
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"We have used the blazars as 'cosmic fog' to analyze how the gamma rays are attenuated because of the 'fog' EBL.
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"Among them are supermassive black holes called blazars, the seething remnants of supernova explosions, and rapidly rotating neutron stars called pulsars."
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The study focused on how bright blazars contribute to our understanding of the universe's structure.
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New telescopes are designed to capture images of blazars, revealing their energetic jets of particles.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word blazar was made by mixing the name BL Lac and quasar. A helpful way to remember it is to think of 'blaze', 'a very bright fire', because a blazar is a galaxy that shines like a bright blaze when a jet from its center points toward Earth.