• Question: after quasars consume all of its surrounding gases and dust does it turn into a galaxie?

    Asked by svputten312 to Sam on 17 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 17 Jun 2013:


      A quasar is already a galaxy – it’s a galaxy with a supermassive black hole in the middle that’s sucking up gas and spewing it out of the galaxy as very fast jets. In fact, quasars stop stars forming inside a galaxy, because they blow out all of the gas that’s needed to make a galaxy.

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