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Science 24 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5240, p. 1303
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5240.1303
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Research News

Jocelyn Kaiser

Early this year, astronomers trying to understand quasars--objects that shine with the brilliance of millions of stars from the far edges of the universe--got a shock. Theorists assumed that each of these beacons is powered by a giant black hole sucking in material from a surrounding galaxy. But when the Hubble Space Telescope provided the first clear look at quasars, the host galaxies seemed to be missing. Now a reanalysis of the same images suggests that the galaxies were there all along.




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