a distant celestial object that produces a spectrum that is heavily redshifted when viewed through a spectroscope.
its probably something else as well...
its probably something else as well...
by KrOnicK August 09, 2005
A quasar (more recently known as a QSO, Quasi-Stellar Object) is a distant star-sized energy source in space that gives off lots of ultraviolet. They are compact and very far away, but they are also very bright.Some of these QSO's gives off large amounts of radiation, including radio waves and X-rays. The word quasar is short for quasi-stellar radio objects. Quasars were first detected by Maartin Schmidt and Allan R. Sandage in 1963 -1964.
"We believe that galaxies and quasars are very intimately connected, that in fact quasars are a phase of galaxy evolution. In our current picture, as every galaxy forms and collapses, it has a brief quasar phase."
by Tori Merton October 25, 2005
Outphase's Trance song from beatmania IIDX 9th Style. Used as the One More Extra Stage from that game, therefore requiring a lot of skill to merely play. The Another14 notechart is considered impossible to pass.
by Oni-Unit March 20, 2005
by DariaAndAliciaWoot March 12, 2010
An attractive girl/woman that radiates a stellar feminine quality (derived from the astronomy term of the same name meaning: an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus, in which a supermassive black hole with mass ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun is surrounded by a gaseous accretion disk.)
"Dude, I know ya love those knee-shootin’ yabos but there’s such a thing as too big. Now take that little amuse-bouche. That quasar has got a nice set of perts."
by goose_on_a_roof October 09, 2020
qua·sar (kwzär, -sär, -zr, -sr) n.
1. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
2. a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; large red shifts imply enormous recession velocities
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quas(i-stellar) + (st)ar.
1. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
2. a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; large red shifts imply enormous recession velocities
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quas(i-stellar) + (st)ar.
The only mechanism people could think of that would produce such large quantities of energy seemed to be the gravitational collapse not just of a star but of the whole central region of a galaxy. This is now known to be a quasar.
by Daniel Spargo July 09, 2005
When you're shitting your brains out and suddenly you're simultaneously puking your guts out making you look like a human quasar; the embodiment of a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies.
Tyrone was sitting, hunched over on the john (toilet) violently shitting his brains out after eating his girlfriend's raw fish. Then suddenly he began to explosively vomit at the same time spending the rest of the night as a quasar in the bathroom. He emitted massive amounts of energy out of his two gaping black holes.
by venompwr February 16, 2020