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- noun Initialism of
active galactic nucleus .
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Examples
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Some of the light from the AGN is obscured by dense gas and dust near the center of the galaxy.
Ghost! Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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Some of the light from the AGN is obscured by dense gas and dust near the center of the galaxy.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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D. Alexander et al. This young galaxy contains an active galactic nucleus (AGN), or quasar, in its center, a luminous object powered by the rapid growth of a supermassive black hole.
Ghost! Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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Another one illustrated below where Active Galactic Nucleus - AGN are trying to hide but Chandra is not easily fooled!
Archive 2009-05-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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D. Alexander et al. This young galaxy contains an active galactic nucleus (AGN), or quasar, in its center, a luminous object powered by the rapid growth of a supermassive black hole.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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Another one illustrated below where Active Galactic Nucleus - AGN are trying to hide but Chandra is not easily fooled!
Ghost! Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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Medicis makes dermatological and aesthetic drugs, including acne treatment Solodyn as well as Dysport, which competes with Allergan Inc.'s AGN Botox.
Medicis CEO's Son Dies After Fall in Mansion Thomas Gryta 2011
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The end of the podcast featured a cool news story by BU astronomer Alan Marscher, AGN guy who also makes sweet movies of VLBI jets at high frequencies.
Archive 2008-05-02 Nicole 2008
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Supermassive black holes can only be detected as quasars – which are one kind of highly luminous active galactic nucleus AGN – when they are actively accreting matter, a process that releases vast amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Caught in the Act! Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar | Universe Today 2010
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By examining the light reflected in the accretion disk of an AGN black hole, he concluded that jets may form right outside black holes that have a retrograde spin – or which spin in the opposite direction from their accretion disk.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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