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Neutrons, Rotating Black Holes, and a Galactic PeVatron at the Center of the Milky Way


Supermassive black holes generate tremendous amounts of energy through their accretion disks and jets. But they can also generate energy through the magnetic Penrose process. A new study looks at how we might observe this process through multimessenger astronomy.

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