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CalTech - Swiss Team Discovers First-Ever Triple Quasars

02/02/2007 01:08AM

CalTech - Swiss Team Discovers First-Ever Triple Quasars

About a hundred thousand quasars have been found to date. Among them less than a hundred are close pairs. This is the first known case of a close Triple Quasar system. The odds of finding a Triple Quasar system are, well... Astronomical.


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Whassamatta? You nevah seen ion-beam milling on a galactic scale befaaw? Busy li'l beavahs too, by the look a' it. <br><br>Big Louie

  • Shannon [Shannon Moore]
  • 02/03/2007 09:43PM
First group of triplet quasars?? Dr. Halton Arp has shown multiple cases of quasar groupings. He has demonstrated numerous cases of quasars appearing in clusters associated with galaxies. Of course, his data contridicts the dogma that quasars are somehow supermassive, superdistant, magically bright objects that exist outside the ability of science to explain. Too bad this case is getting attention while the far more extensive body of work compiled by Dr. Arp is practically ignored. <br><br>Factor in inherent redshift and you find that quasars occur in groups often. In fact, it might turn out that groups are more common than solitary ones. <br><br>Before anyone claims to have made a "discovery" maybe they need to check if someone else made it before! Give Dr. Arp some credit.<br><br>Shannon