Unlocking the Quasar Code: Revolutionary Insights From 3C 273

In a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, JILA Fellow Jason Dexter, graduate student Kirk Long, and other collaborators compared two main theoretical models for emission data for a specific quasar, 3C 273. If the quasar were a blackhole, one would expect two emission peaks. If the galactic disk is at constant temperature, one would expected redshifted emission peak from it. The second peak would come from the matter falling to the blackhole and it would be blueshifted relative to the first peak. Only single peak was observed. Somehow the falling of the matter is prevented to the quasar is prevented.

Could the quasar look like a blackhole-like object in its exterior but emit radiation and matter preventing the falling of the matter to it?