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Unknown radio structure detected around brightest known quasar

stronomers have found two large, mysterious objects blasting out of the brightest black hole in the known universe. Discovered in a 1959 survey of cosmic radio wave sources, the supermassive black hole 3C 273 is a quasar – short for quasi-stellar object because the light emitted by these behemoths is bright enough to be mistaken for starlight. While

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