The Twin Quasar (also known as Twin QSO, Double Quasar, SBS 0957+561, TXS 0957+561, Q0957+561 or QSO 0957+561 A/B), was discovered in 1979 and was the...
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A quasar (/ˈkweɪzɑːr/ KWAY-zar) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN). It is sometimes known as a quasi-stellar object, abbreviated QSO...
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microlensing event in the Twin Quasar gravitational lensing system was observed in 1996, by R. E. Schild, in the "A" lobe of the lensed quasar. It is predicted...
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of quasars. More than a million quasars have been observed, so any list on Wikipedia is necessarily a selection of them. Proper naming of quasars are...
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Einstein Cross (redirect from Einstein Cross (Quasar))
gravitationally lensed quasar that sits directly behind the centre of the galaxy ZW 2237+030, called Huchra's Lens. Four images of the same distant quasar (plus one...
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Quasar was the name of the first concept car produced by Peugeot. It was assembled in 1984 at the Peugeot plant in La Garenne, and first displayed at the...
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Walsh, Bob Carswell, and Ray Weymann in 1979. They determined that the Twin Quasar Q0957+561A comprises two images of the same object. Most strong gravitational...
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characteristics of quasars and the possibility of identifying identical events of some signal characteristic. Information from the Twin Quasars that Wheeler...
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cluster Mayall II YGKOW G1, a giant elliptical galaxy that lensed the Twin Quasar G1 star, a subclass of G-class stars G1, a cloud that passed by Sagittarius...
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CLASS B1359+154 (category Gravitationally lensed quasars)
of a sixfold multiply imaged quasar. Twin Quasar Einstein Cross Barkhouse, Wayne A.; Hall, Patrick B. (May 2001). "Quasars in the 2MASS Second Incremental...
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