A quasar is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus whose compact central emission can be observed across cosmological distances.
A quasar light curve records its measured brightness as a function of time. Intrinsic accretion variability, measurement noise, and gravitational lensing can all contribute structure.

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  1. Active galactic nucleus
  2. Supermassive black hole
  3. Astrophysical black hole
  4. Astrophysics
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