active galactic nucleus

Colliding galaxies add matter and make a central supermassive black hole {active galactic nucleus} (AGN), whose infalling matter makes light, forms accretion disk, and/or sends out plasma jets. Quasars are active galactic nuclei. AGN are less than one light-year diameter, down to light-minutes.

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