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blazar

noun
/ˈbleɪ.zɑɹ/US

Etymology

Blend of B + L + Lac + quasar. Coined by astronomer Edward Spiegel in 1978 from BL Lac object and quasar, punning blazing from its optical presentation compared to usual quasars. By surface analysis, blaze + -ar.

  1. borrowed from stēllāris
  2. compounded as quasar — “quasi- + stellar”
  3. compounded as blazar — “B + L + Lac + quasar”

Definitions

  1. A very compact quasar, associated with a supermassive black hole at the center of an…

    A very compact quasar, associated with a supermassive black hole at the center of an active galaxy.

  2. An object which is either an optically violent variable quasar (OVV quasar) or a BL Lac…

    An object which is either an optically violent variable quasar (OVV quasar) or a BL Lac object or which has properties of both.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blazar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA