Abstract
It might be hard to believe that something even more powerful and more energetic than a radio galaxy could exist. But it does. In the early 1960s extremely energetic objects that we now call quasars were discovered.
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Parker, B. (1990). Quasars. In: Colliding Galaxies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3348-5_6
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