Question

In 2020, a 13-billion-year old one of these objects named Pōniuā‘ena (“PO-nee-wa-EN-uh”) was discovered with a 1.5-billion-solar-mass black hole at its center. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these very bright active galactic nuclei, whose common name comes from a shortening of “quasi-stellar radio source.”
ANSWER: quasars
[10h] Quasar-host galaxies are often contrasted with these other active galaxies, which have an active nucleus but also a clearly detectable host. These galaxies named for an American astronomer come in Type I and Type II kinds.
ANSWER: Seyfert galaxies
[10m] Twin Quasar 55 was the first observation of this phenomenon, which can lead to the formation of Einstein rings if a source, observer, and intermediate body are all aligned.
ANSWER: gravitational lensing [accept strong gravitational lensing or weak gravitational lensing]
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2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley2024-11-16Y320.00100%100%0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y816.25100%38%25%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y717.14100%43%29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online2024-11-16Y816.2588%63%13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC2024-11-16Y316.67100%33%33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida2024-11-16Y514.00100%40%0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford2024-11-16Y1117.2791%64%18%

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Emory AAlabama A100010
Auburn AGeorgia Tech C1010020
Auburn CGeorgia Tech E100010
Clemson AGeorgia Tech A100010
Georgia Tech BAuburn B1010020
Georgia Tech DEmory B1001020
Georgia Tech FTennesse A1001020
South Carolina ATennesse B1001020