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  • noun Plural form of quasar.

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Examples

  • Few could argue with director Shawn Levy's casting: Fey and Carell are twin quasars of neuroses as Liz Lemon and Michael Scott on their back-to-back Thursday night NBC shows, 30 Rock and The Office.

    Love triangle on 'Date Night' set: Carell, Fey, director Levy 2010

  • The before mentioned VLBI or Radio Telescopes are used to observe the quasars for that purpose, whereas the in-depth study of the quasars is done with the European X-Ray satellite telescope XMM Newton.

    Quasars Bente Lilja Bye 2008

  • I myself will be proposing to use Herschel to study star formation in quasars, making observations that have simply not been possible before.

    MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research 2008

  • They named the starlike things quasi-stellar radio sources; later they shortened the name to quasars.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • They named the starlike things quasi-stellar radio sources; later they shortened the name to quasars.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • They named the starlike things quasi-stellar radio sources; later they shortened the name to quasars.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • They named the starlike things quasi-stellar radio sources; later they shortened the name to quasars.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The quasar HE0450-2958 is an odd entity: normally, supermassive black holes – also known as quasars – form at the center of galaxies.

    Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy | Universe Today 2009

  • Indications that such big black holes must have existed came from observations of the powerful galactic light sources known as quasars.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • These black holes' existence was proposed four decades ago to account for the high-energy bursts of radiation, known as quasars, from distant and ancient galaxies.

    News - latimes.com 2011

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