Quasars

Question 1

What are Quasars?

Answer 1

Galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centers and long jets of spewed out material at its axes of rotation.

Question 2

What is an Accretion Disk?

Answer 2

A structure in the shape of a disk formed by diffuse material in orbit around a massive central body.

Question 3

What range of the Spectrum do Quasars release?

Answer 3

Infrared, Visible Light, Ultraviolet, and X-Rays.

Question 4

Why do we see Radio waves from Quasars?

Answer 4

There is a lot of red-shifting happening, so we can see much lower frequencies being emitted from Quasars.