Quasars at All Cosmic Epochs

• Main Author: Ascensión del Olmo (auth)
• Other Authors: Mauro D'Onofrio (auth), Paola Marziani (auth), Deborah Dultzin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Astronomy, space & time; Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN); extragalactic radio sources; spectral energy distribution of quasars; cosmology; black holes; accretion disks; evolution of galaxies
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The last 50 years have seen a tremendous progress in the research on quasars. From a time when quasars were unforeseen oddities, we have come to a view that considers quasars as active galactic nuclei, with nuclear activity a coming-of-age experienced by most or all galaxies in their evolution. We h...