A quasar is a very energetic object resulting from an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. A microquasar depends on very similar physics, but is the product of an accretion disk around a stellar mass black hole. Two completely separate populations (as there is no overlap between stellar mass and supermassive black holes).Quasar, IIRC, stands for quasi-stellar object, something very bright but whose light was anomalously red shifted. They were thought to be at the luminous limits of distance we could see at the time. Now we have a star which is a microquasar? So is M87 then a miniquasar in its core? The term seems to be applicable to whatever the person wants to talk about.
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