But instead of heavily died hair, its high-energy photons emitted through synchotron radiation, following the spirals of an intense magnetic field. As matter swirls around and falls into the black hole, it emits most of the energy we receive from the quasar. Much of the energy is emitted along a cone of light or a jet perpendicular to the plane of the host galaxy. We are looking down the tube of a quasar, so to speak, at the main energy source. Quasars are very strange things.
Quasars are the brightest objects known.
So far, they have been seen at a red shift of 5.5. Think about that the next time someone comes at you on the highway with their extra bright lights on. Then in the early 1990's the blazar family grew. However, the large numbers found by Compton still took investigators by surprise. 3 BL Lac is a fun object to observe.