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A quasar looks like a star  
until you measure the **redshift**.

Then it stops being a star.

It becomes a **galaxy’s core** —  
a black hole with an accretion disk bright enough  
to be seen across **billions of light-years**.

**Small object.**  
**Absurd output.**

The light is old by the time it reaches you.

The signal is not.