This image combines observations from the Very Large Telescope, tuned to detect the fluorescent emissions
produced by the quasar illuminating the dark galaxies, with colour data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Not exact matches
«Seyfert» galaxies, which are all around us, are sort of miniquasars,
producing a torrent of radiation from their core that, though it's far less than a
quasar's, is spectacular
by ordinary galactic standards.
Observation: The light from
quasars is observed to be bent
by gravitational lenses
produced by galaxies between the Earth and the
quasars.