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microquasar [¦mī·krō ′kwā‚zär] (astronomy) An object in the Milky Way Galaxy that contains a black hole or neutron star and emits jets of material that exhibit superluminal motion and resemble those emitted from quasars. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Each of the 3,000 entries gives current information about a topic such as comets, asteroids, meteorites, moons, planets, constellations, nebulae, galaxies, microquasars, brown dwarfs, and dark energy but also tells a bit of the history of astronomy. GRS 1915+105 is called a microquasar because its stream of X rays and blasts of radio-emitting gas resemble a scaled-down version of the action of quasars in faraway galaxies. |
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