{"id":3945,"date":"2005-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2005\/10\/11\/galaxy-collisions-and-the-birth-of-quasars\/"},"modified":"2005-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"galaxy-collisions-and-the-birth-of-quasars","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/galaxy-collisions-and-the-birth-of-quasars\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Collisions and the Birth of Quasars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Gabriela Canalizo<\/p>\n<p>Quasars are some of the most powerful objects in the Universe, and their study allows us to probe the early Universe.   However, there are still many uncertainties regarding their nature and, in particular, the way in which they are formed.  In this talk, I review the role of supermassive black holes, starbursts, and galaxy collisions in the life of quasars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3945","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}