New Study Shows How Astrophysicists Can Use Black Holes as Particle Supercolliders

Jun 4, 2025 - 14:30
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New Study Shows How Astrophysicists Can Use Black Holes as Particle Supercolliders
This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford, STScI.

New research shows that collisions between particles free falling from infinity and a disk of material plunging off the retrograde innermost stable circular orbit of a rotating black hole is the unique astronomically natural way in which to create a gravitational particle accelerator with center of mass energies at the tens to hundreds of teraelectronvolt range.

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