Three Types of Extreme-Energy Space Particles May Have Unified Origin (IMAGE)
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This image illustrates the 'multi-messenger' emission from a gigantic reservoir of cosmic rays that are accelerated by powerful jets from a supermassive black hole. The high-energy cosmic rays escaping from the black hole's active galactic nucleus are trapped in the magnetized environment that serves as a reservoir of cosmic rays. The high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays are produced in the magnetized environment during their confinement and in the intergalactic space during their propagation. The ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, high-energy neutrinos, and gamma rays eventually reach the Earth, where they can give us a unified picture of all three cumulative fluxes of the cosmic particles.
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Kanoko Horio
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