Supermassive black holes alter the chemical evolution of galaxies
Quasars are among the most luminous objects known in the universe. Like other active galaxies, they host a supermassive black hole at their center, with masses that vary from millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun. It is surrounded by a disk of plasma that feeds it. The enormous gravitational pull of the black hole generates extreme temperature and pressure in this accretion disk.
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