Physics A-Level
Quasars
What Quasars means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Quasars
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Compact, intense radio sources with faint star-like optical images, later shown to lie at vast distances with exceptionally high intrinsic luminosity.
Topics that use Quasars
- Quasars (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Accretion discs and black hole mass
- Active galactic nuclei
- Cosmological redshift
- estimation
- Gravitational potential energy conversion
- Hubble's law
- Inverse-square law
- Quasi-stellar radio sources
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