Quasars: How do we know what we know?
Talk, L-3, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Bhopal, IISER Bhopal, India
Quasars are the most enigmatic yet elegant beasts of the universe. Their nature is aptly captured by the phrase “They are the fire-breathing, bat-winged, vampire, rainbow, zebra unicorns of Astrophysics” by Matt O’Dowd. Sitting at distances reflecting the dawn of time, they are the farthest known objects in the Cosmos. With a super-massive blackhole lurking in their cores engulfing a hyper-heated accretion disk and spewing humongous jets of plasma, they were the primordial slayers of galaxies and aided vita genesis.