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Quasars Have Always Had Dark Matter Halos


When you look at most galaxies in the Universe, you're looking at the homes of supermassive black holes. It now appears that quasars, which are active galaxies spitting out huge amounts of radiation from the region around their black holes, also have massive dark matter halos.

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