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NihilumExNil | 7 years ago

That's not easy to prove, because nobody can look into the quasar. The question still stands. What are "those objects"?

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SiempreViernes|7 years ago

Confirmed black holes include Sagittarius A* and the GW150914 primary and secondary objects.

As for quasars, the source region is very compact, mere light minutes in some cases by the constraints from variability timescales. Further, the emission is from very many is obviously from a relativistically orbiting emitter (or otherwise explain the Iron alpha line profiles), so an accretion disk around a massive, very compact object: a black black hole.