Explore Quasars through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Quasars meaning
plural of quasar
Using Quasars
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of quasar
- In the example corpus, quasars often appears in combinations such as: quasars are, quasars were, some quasars.
Context around Quasars
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quasars
- In this selection, "quasars" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, distant, although, separate, appear, gravitationally and beacons stand out and add context to how "quasars" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 3c 273 quasars were much and active galaxies quasars can be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quasars" sits close to words such as abbeys, abdur and absconded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quasars
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like all (unobscured) active galaxies, quasars can be strong X-ray sources. (12 words)
Quasars are detectable longer than all other cosmic fireworks, save for the Big Bang. (14 words)
However, this relationship was not confirmed observationally due to the rarity of both quasars and protoclusters. (16 words)
Based on observations to satellites and celestial compact radio sources (quasars) from various coordinated stations around the globe, Airy's transit circle drifts northeast about 2.5 centimetres per year relative to this Earth-centred 0° longitude. (37 words)
Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe powered by their supermassive black holes and since their discovery, astronomers have been keen to determine when they first appeared in our cosmic history. (33 words)
Because of the great distances to the farthest quasars and the finite velocity of light, we see them and their surrounding space as they existed in the very early universe. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although quasars appear faint when viewed from Earth, they are visible from extreme distances because quasars are the most luminous objects in the known universe.
As quasars are rare objects, the probability of three or more separate quasars being found near the same location is very low.
It is still substantially more luminous than nearby quasars such as 3C 273. Quasars were much more common in the early universe.
A survey of distant quasars gravitationally lensed by closer galaxies calculated the Hubble value at six different redshift distances.
In 1963, Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt discovered quasars, beacons at the edge of the universe pumping out 100 times the energy of a normal galaxy.
Quasars are detectable longer than all other cosmic fireworks, save for the Big Bang.
They found what they describe as “the presence of distorted structures” in the galaxies that contain quasars.
Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe powered by their supermassive black holes and since their discovery, astronomers have been keen to determine when they first appeared in our cosmic history.
However, this relationship was not confirmed observationally due to the rarity of both quasars and protoclusters.
A minority of quasars show strong radio emission, which is generated by jets of matter moving close to the speed of light.
At this time, there were some suggestions that quasars were made of some hitherto unknown form of stable antimatter and that this might account for their brightness.
Based on observations to satellites and celestial compact radio sources (quasars) from various coordinated stations around the globe, Airy's transit circle drifts northeast about 2.5 centimetres per year relative to this Earth-centred 0° longitude.
Because of the great distances to the farthest quasars and the finite velocity of light, we see them and their surrounding space as they existed in the very early universe.
Due to the high frequency used, the chances of finding gravitational lenses increases as the relative number of compact core objects (e.g. Quasars) are higher (Sadler et al. 2006).
For instance, galaxies contain more young stars and are less clustered, and quasars appear more numerous.
In 2011 astronomers found what they believe to be pristine clouds of primordial gas, by analyzing absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars.
In particular, active galactic nuclei and quasars are believed to be the accretion discs of supermassive black holes.
Later it was found that not all quasars have strong radio emission; in fact only about 10% are 'radio-loud'.
Like all (unobscured) active galaxies, quasars can be strong X-ray sources.
Most quasars, with the exception of 3C 273 whose average apparent magnitude is 12.9, cannot be seen with small telescopes.
Common combinations with quasars
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- quasars are 7×
- quasars were 3×
- some quasars 3×
- quasars appear 2×
- as quasars 2×
- distant quasars 2×
- quasars and 2×
- of quasars 2×
- quasars show 2×
- that quasars 2×