Active galactic nucleus

Active galactic nucleus - compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much higher than normal luminosity over at least some portion – and possibly all – of the electromagnetic spectrum. Article “Active galactic nucleus” in English Wikipedia has 71.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 62 references and 18 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Active galactic nucleus” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Active galactic nucleus”, its content was written by 217 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 698 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1270 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5462 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3294 in April 2003
• Global: #6703 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #49584 in April 2008
• Global: #48612 in July 2017

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Aktiver Galaxienkern		93.7035
2	English (en) Active galactic nucleus		71.7675
3	Chinese (zh) 活动星系核		70.881
4	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo galáctico ativo		61.4035
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Aktiv galaksekjerne		42.3367
6	Slovak (sk) Aktívne jadro galaxie		38.4234
7	Ukrainian (uk) Активні ядра галактик		32.9938
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Aktivno galaktičko jezgro		31.3832
9	Arabic (ar) نواة مجرية نشطة		26.353
10	Hindi (hi) सक्रीय गैलेक्सीय नाभिक		25.0121

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Active galactic nucleus" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Active galactic nucleus		2 281 132
2	Russian (ru) Активные ядра галактик		393 730
3	German (de) Aktiver Galaxienkern		369 777
4	Chinese (zh) 活动星系核		111 846
5	Korean (ko) 활동은하핵		38 460
6	Swedish (sv) Aktiv galaxkärna		36 218
7	Ukrainian (uk) Активні ядра галактик		29 427
8	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo galáctico ativo		25 346
9	Persian (fa) هسته کهکشانی فعال		24 851
10	Thai (th) นิวเคลียสดาราจักรกัมมันต์		24 199

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Active galactic nucleus" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Active galactic nucleus		9 412
2	German (de) Aktiver Galaxienkern		1 357
3	Russian (ru) Активные ядра галактик		963
4	Chinese (zh) 活动星系核		419
5	Simple English (simple) Active galactic nucleus		223
6	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo galáctico ativo		164
7	Korean (ko) 활동은하핵		153
8	Turkish (tr) Aktif galaksi çekirdeği		129
9	Czech (cs) Aktivní galaktické jádro		94
10	Ukrainian (uk) Активні ядра галактик		78

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Active galactic nucleus" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Active galactic nucleus		217
2	German (de) Aktiver Galaxienkern		151
3	Russian (ru) Активные ядра галактик		57
4	Chinese (zh) 活动星系核		36
5	Norwegian (no) Aktiv galaksekjerne		35
6	Hebrew (he) גרעין גלקטי פעיל		20
7	Hungarian (hu) Aktív galaxismag		20
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân thiên hà hoạt động		19
9	Arabic (ar) نواة مجرية نشطة		18
10	Swedish (sv) Aktiv galaxkärna		15

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Active galactic nucleus" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Active galactic nucleus		3
2	Arabic (ar) نواة مجرية نشطة		2
3	German (de) Aktiver Galaxienkern		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Fəal nüvəli qalaktikalar		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Активно галактично ядро		0
6	Czech (cs) Aktivní galaktické jádro		0
7	Persian (fa) هسته کهکشانی فعال		0
8	Hebrew (he) גרעין גלקטי פעיל		0
9	Hindi (hi) सक्रीय गैलेक्सीय नाभिक		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Aktív galaxismag		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Active galactic nucleus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Active galactic nucleus		1 270
2	German (de) Aktiver Galaxienkern		1 260
3	Russian (ru) Активные ядра галактик		408
4	Chinese (zh) 活动星系核		359
5	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo galáctico ativo		236
6	Arabic (ar) نواة مجرية نشطة		227
7	Ukrainian (uk) Активні ядра галактик		226
8	Turkish (tr) Aktif galaksi çekirdeği		208
9	Korean (ko) 활동은하핵		195
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân thiên hà hoạt động		168

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نواة مجرية نشطة
az	Azerbaijani Fəal nüvəli qalaktikalar
bg	Bulgarian Активно галактично ядро
cs	Czech Aktivní galaktické jádro
de	German Aktiver Galaxienkern
en	English Active galactic nucleus
fa	Persian هسته کهکشانی فعال
he	Hebrew גרעין גלקטי פעיל
hi	Hindi सक्रीय गैलेक्सीय नाभिक
hu	Hungarian Aktív galaxismag
id	Indonesian Inti galaksi aktif
ko	Korean 활동은하핵
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Aktiv galaksekjerne
no	Norwegian Aktiv galaksekjerne
pt	Portuguese Núcleo galáctico ativo
ru	Russian Активные ядра галактик
sh	Serbo-Croatian Aktivno galaktičko jezgro
simple	Simple English Active galactic nucleus
sk	Slovak Aktívne jadro galaxie
sl	Slovenian Aktivno galaktično jedro
sr	Serbian Aktivno galaktičko jezgro
sv	Swedish Aktiv galaxkärna
th	Thai นิวเคลียสดาราจักรกัมมันต์
tr	Turkish Aktif galaksi çekirdeği
uk	Ukrainian Активні ядра галактик
vi	Vietnamese Nhân thiên hà hoạt động
zh	Chinese 活动星系核

Best Rank

English: #49584 04.2008

Global: #48612 07.2017

Best Rank

English: #3294 04.2003

Global: #6703 04.2003

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