{"id":8325,"date":"2023-04-06T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:51:23","slug":"about-w12-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-w12-blueprint\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Quasar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Quasar:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A quasar is an extremely <strong>active and luminous type of active galactic nucleus (AGN).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>An AGN is nothing more than a supermassive black hole that is active and feeding at the center of a galaxy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The brightest <strong>quasars can outshine all of the stars in the galaxies <\/strong>in which they reside, which makes them visible even at distances of billions of light-years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Quasars are thought to <strong>form in regions of the universe where the large-scale density of matter is much higher than average.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Most quasars have been <strong>found billions of light-years away.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quasars emit energies of millions, billions, or even trillions of electron volts. This energy exceeds the total of the light of all the stars within a galaxy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0 What is a Black Hole?<\/h3>\n<p>A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9live.com\/science\/hubble-discovers-unexpected-double-quasar-in-early-universe-au941-2095608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Hubble discovers unexpected double quasar in early universe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quasar is an extremely active and luminous type of active galactic nucleus (AGN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}