a University of Hawaii astronomer con- firm the cosmological origin of quasars, reports Maran, a NASA staff scientist.
Astronomers had previously devised a theoretical "proof" of quasars' cosmological origins, pegged to the accepted belief that the red shift of galaxies resulted from the universe's expansion. If it could be deter- mined that quasars characteristically occurred within the remotest, faintly visible groups of galaxies and displayed similar red shifts, then the common origin...