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Mon Mar 1 09:43:53 1982
Quasar speculations
I have heard a new speculation from an astronomer as to what
quasars are: VERY young galaxies forming out of the primordial Big Bang
produced hydrogen. Of course this assumes that the redshift for quasars
are cosmological, that is due to their distance.
The idea is that as all galaxies began to form out of the
primordial hydrogen, a large number of VERY massive stars (>100 times
the mass of our local little star) formed quickly, burned their guts out
in a few million years and then exploded, dumping some of the stuff that
we are made of into the galaxy.
For the few million years that all these massive stars are
shining, it is estimated that the galaxy would be VERY luminous
(especially when you add in the ionized hydrogen clouds 100 kiloparseces
in diameter). And since their redshifts (even if off by a factor of two)
tell us that they are 5 to 15 billion light years away, meaning that
looking at a quasar is viewing as close to the Big Bang as we are likely
to see from the surface of out planet.
So there's more astronomical grist for the discussion mill.
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