Black Holes as Ghost Particle Accelerators ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Proton Acceleration by Collisionless Shocks in Supermassive Black Hole Coronae: Implications for High-Energy Neutrinos"
Shock waves near supermassive black holes efficiently accelerate protons, spawning neutrinos without gamma rays.
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Ghostly neutrinos from far-off galaxies long puzzled scientists: the particles arrive, but the expected gamma rays don’t. It turns out that in a black hole’s hot corona, shock waves rev up protons to staggering energies, while gamma rays drown in plasma like a scream into a pillow. This discovery demystifies how nature’s super-accelerators operate.
🎯 Cosmic shock waves can accelerate particles to energies a million times beyond the reach of the Large Hadron Collider—the most powerful accelerator on Earth.
🎬 In Stanisław Lem’s novel “His Master’s Voice,” neutrinos are the perfect medium for interstellar communication because they can pass through anything.