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Quasars are the most luminous, powerful, and energetic objects known in the universe. They tend to inhabit the very centers of active young galaxies and can emit up to a thousand times the energy output of the Milky Way. Basically, they are galaxies with extremely luminous nuclei outshining their parent galaxy by several hundred times, caused by a high redshift source of electromagnetic energy (radio waves, visible light, etc.) at a compact region in the center of the galaxy surrounding the theoretical supermassive black hole. The most luminous quasars radiate at a rate that can exceed the output of average galaxies, roughly equivalent to one trillion suns!

The energy source to such stupendous activity is theoretically considered to be an accretion of matter into a supermassive black hole expelled as pure energy in cataclysmic bursts generated outside the event horizon by gravitational stresses and immense friction on the incoming material.

In answer to your question, the most extreme quasar currently known for being the least distant, optically brightest from Earth, and the most powerful quasar radio source is 3C 273.

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