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Quasars
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Discovery and Early History
The first objects identified as quasars were initially cataloged as faint, seemingly unremarkable stars exhibiting unusually strong radio emission. Early attempts to measure their distances using standard redshift techniques yielded extraordinarily large values, which, if interpreted according to Hubble's Law, implied distances far exceeding contemporary estimates for the size of the observable universe [2]. This led to initial, erroneous classifications…