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Powerful emissions from the centres of nearby galaxies may represent dead quasars.
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LYNDEN-BELL, D. Galactic Nuclei as Collapsed Old Quasars. Nature 223, 690–694 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223690a0
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