Published:
January 24, 2011
 A blazar and quasar are essentially the same thing, with the former just tilted differently to our line of site. Both are the active centers of galaxies, feeding off nearby material. Astronomy: Roen Kelly
Blazars and quasars are intrinsically the same object — a supermassive black hole with a surrounding accretion disk, producing a jet — but seen at different orientation angles with respect to the jet’s axis.
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