It almost surely once had a quasar phase , astronomers say .
天文学家已经几乎确认,它曾经存在一个类星体的阶段。
That is what makes a quasar .
那就是,究竟是什么造就了一个类星体。
A single quasar can be 1000 times brighter than an entire galaxy of 100 billion stars .
一个类星体比1000亿个恒星组成的星系还要亮1000倍。
A radio galaxy is related to , but appears larger than , a quasar .
一个射电星系与之有关,但是它比类星体要大。
Details in the structure of a distant quasar revealed .
揭示遥远类星体结构的细节。
The quasar outshines its entire host galaxy so significantly that scientists have not been able to see what 's really causing all the commotion .
类星体中所有的星系都大放光芒,以至于科学家不能分辨到底是什么导致了这所有的爆发。
As light from a quasar travels through space , it passes through clouds of gas that imprint absorption lines onto its spectrum .
当光从一个类星体划过太空,便会穿过将吸收线特征印在光谱上的气体云。
This new quasar , though , appears to date from a time when the clearing process wasn 't yet complete .
这种新的类星体,但是,似乎从时间日期结算过程尚未完成。
The data suggested that the value of alpha was very slightly smaller when the quasar light was emitted 12 billion years ago than it appears in laboratories on earth today .
By studying the way a quasar magnifies light as a gravitational lens , he said , " we now can measure the masses of these quasar host galaxies and overcome this difficulty . "