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Wed Mar 10 14:29:15 1982
Superluminal quasars
If a quasar is a brand-new galaxy, shining mostly by very-massive
(and thus short-lived) stars, in fact perhaps shining mostly by
the accumulated light of supernovas, it's quite possible that
a single supernova could change the brightness measurably within
a period of hours and that if several supernovas just happen
to occasionally explode at the same apparent time as measured
by light that reaches Earth, that the galaxy may appear to double
brightness in a few days. -- I don't recall just how significant
the changes are that are observed to take a few days. Are they
doublings of brightness, or just a percent or so? If they are
factors of ten increase in brightness then I'd tend to reject
my supernova theory, but a few percent usual and doubling on
rare occasions would be satisfied by the galaxy&supernova theory.


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