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An artist's impression of a quasar like one of the nineteen found by this study. The black dot in the center represents the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar. The red-and-yellow spiral surrounding it shows the accretion disk of hot gas falling into the black hole. Some of this gas is ejected as the quasar's wind, which is shown in light blue. The size of the accretion disk shown is comparable to the size of our Solar System. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss, Nahks Tr'Ehnl, Nurten Filiz Ak