ENERGY SOURCE. “It is plausible that a significant fraction of the energy could be derived from an AGN surrounded by a very great column density of gas and dust that imposes many tens of magnitudes of extinction on the emission from the AGN in the optical and UV wavebands, and which remains optically thick even at near-IR wavelengths.“ (AGN = active galactic nuclei; UV = ultraviolet; IR = infrared).
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