Multiple Choice
An intense radio source is found to coincide with a starlike object whose spectrum contains a pattern of intense emission lines in the visible range that matches that of the Lyman UV hydrogen spectral lines but is very redshifted. What is this object?
A) exploding shell of a supernova
B) black hole
C) quasar
D) pulsar
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