Paper: astro-ph/0604560

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:56:10 GMT (177kb)

Title: Quasars and Galactic Nuclei,a Half-Century Agitated Story

Authors: Suzy Collin

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, talk given at the Albert Einstein Century
International Conference, held in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2005, submitted
to publication in AIP, Eds J.-M. Alimi and A. Fuzfa
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I recall how the discovery of quasars occurred more than forty years ago, and
the strong debates marking out their story. It led to the discovery of Massive
Black Holes, which are now known to be present in almost all galaxies, and it
opened on a coherent physical model and on a new vision of galaxy evolution.

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