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Directed Emission Model for Quasars

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The difficulties of accounting for the powerful emission of energy from quasars can be resolved if the emission is assumed to be concentrated in one direction.

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PORTER, N. Directed Emission Model for Quasars. Nature 217, 329–331 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217329a0

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