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A paragraph from the article. It reads: "So far, the clumsily long name "quasi-stellar radio sources" is used to describe these objects. Because the nature of these objects is entirely unknown, it is hard to prepare a short, appropriate nomenclature for them so that their essential properties are obvious from their name. For convenience, the abbreviated form "quasar" will be used throughout this paper."

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A paragraph from the article. It reads: "So far, the clumsily long name "quasi-stellar radio sources" is used to describe these objects. Because the nature of these objects is entirely unknown, it is hard to prepare a short, appropriate nomenclature for them so that their essential properties are obvious from their name. For convenience, the abbreviated form "quasar" will be used throughout this paper."
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 19:33:06 UTC Robert McNees
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We now refer to these objects – active galactic nuclei powered by supermassive black holes – as "quasars." But that name wouldn't be used until 1964, when it was introduced by Hong-Yee Chiu in an article for Physics Today.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3051610

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