Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars: Why Still a Puzzle after 50 years?
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-09-14 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The first part of this article is a historical and physical introduction to quasars and their close cousins, called Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). In the second part, I argue that our progress in understanding them has been unsatisfactory and in fact somewhat illusory since their discovery fifty years ago, and that much of the reason is a pervasive lack of critical thinking in the research community. It would be very surprising if other fields do not suffer similar failings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1501.02001,
title = {Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars: Why Still a Puzzle after 50 years?},
author = {Robert Antonucci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02001},
year = {2015}
}
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26 pages, 2 figures, 1 appendix