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Vampire black hole is a ‘cosmic particle accelerator’ that could solve a long-standing astronomy mystery

Scientists may have found evidence that vampire black holes feeding on victim stars called microquasars are cosmic particle accelerators responsible for the mysterious high-energy cosmic rays we see bombarding Earth. These stellar-mass black holes are found in binary systems with a supergiant star from which they greedily rob matter. Some of this stellar material is… Read More »