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W. Niel Brandt

1 articles · 22 co-authors · latest: 2026-06-04

Quiet Quasar: Ultraviolet Storm at a Third of Light Speed

The quasar SDSS J2318, pretending to be a quiet one with weak emission lines, concealed inside a furious wind accelerated to 0.3 the speed of light. This outflow is capable of sweeping the interstellar medium out of its host galaxy, forever halting star birth. The discovery, made through spectroscop
arXiv:2606.06226v1 · 2026-06-04