Most of us Computer junkies are aware of space and the unseen and fantastic mysteries of space. few of us are even aware and know of some of Its fantastic functioning. And even few’r are able to unlock some of Its doors. While most of us might know about features of space such as asteriods, meteors and alien objects such as existance of combustable particles most of us are unaware of true mind and time bending(Literally) mysteries such as Neutron stars, black holes, unimaginable powers of gravity and finally Quasars. Today we’ll be studying a bit about Quasars and lay an eye on some of Its features and facts. Black holes have truly mind bending gravitational force but Quasars are simply their grand Daddy (and that too by a quantum mile)
So what are Quasars?
This Is what Wikipedia says about Quasars :  A quasi-stellar radio source (quasar) is a very energetic and distant galaxy with an active galactic neucleus. They are the most luminous objects in the universe. Quasars were first identified as being high redshift sources of electro magnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that were point-like, similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxies.

In simple words Quasars are nothing but black holes, black holes are formed when tremendously huge stars die and explode out, when the gravitational force of such stars become so strong thats It virtually collpses upon Itself brining about the creation of a void In space thats called a black hole. A black hole Is simply gravities victory over matter. matter simply can’t take It any more and collapses on Itself. Quasars are black holes that have crouched Into each other, they are attracted to each other by their massive gravitational pull, this mutual attraction between many a black hole gives birth to a mega black hole called a Quasar. It is believed a single Quasar has the density of around 2 billion suns.  and many are much much bigger.

below are a few Artist’s Impressions on Quasars taken from Harvard’s X-Ray observatory.

Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray inset: NASA/CXC/U.Hawaii/A.Stockton et al. (Source)

Credit: NASA/CXC/A.Siemiginowska et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss (Source)

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/G.Chartas et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss (Source)

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/D.Schwartz & S.Virani; Illustration: CXC/M.Weiss (Source)

Credit: NASA/CXC/PSU/N.Brandt et al. (Source)

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