New Source of Cosmic Rays Discovered

Posted on by helen hall
cosmic-ray-illustration
Image Courtesy of ESO /E. Helder and NASA / Chandra
 

A new source of cosmic rays has been discovered
near the centre of the milky way galaxy, with an energy
density of accelerated ions about a thousand times greater
than that of cosmic rays in the region of the solar system.

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