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Loading contentThe framework that the many types of active galactic nucleus — Seyferts, quasars, radio galaxies, blazars — are largely the same underlying object, a supermassive black hole accreting through a disk and torus, seen from different angles and at different luminosities. A model that explains the types, rather than a type itself.
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