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Cosmic jets from galaxies and quasars led to the recognition that radio galaxies and quasars are members of the same family of active galactic nuclei and what we see depends on how their radio jests are oriented with respect to our line of sight.
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Verschuur, G. (2015). The Grand Unification: Active Galactic Nuclei. In: The Invisible Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13422-2_12
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