The Most Mysterious Phenomena in Existences - Quasars
Ever looked up at the sky and wondered, what's the most mysterious thing in existence? Today, we are looking at something we know very little about. In the modern world, we've been used to knowing that humanity has found, or known the majority of the things we observe in the world, and in the universe, but it's important to realize that there are many many more things in the world and in the universe alike that humanity has a whole still doesn't know about, and quasars are amongst them. What is a Quasar? A quasar, or quasi-stellar object (QSO) for short, is basically an extremely "luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN) in which a supermassive black hole with a mass ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of the sun is surrounded by a mostly gaseous accretion disk" [1]. Now, what does this all mean? In simple terms, a quasar is a black hole with a gaseous accretion disk of gas, dust, and other materials, which sits in the middle of super active gal...