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by omrjml 2299 days ago
Blazars are just quasars with the jets pointed towards us. Quasars are basically galaxies with active super massive black hole in its centre. Luckily for us, our galaxy has a quiet black hole (quiet meaning it's not feeding like crazy). This picture might help https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March04/Torres/Figures/f...

BL Lac in the picture is a blazar. So same object is classed differently depending on is orientation with respect to us.