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China's observatory discovers powerful cosmic particle accelerator
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Chinese scientists using the LHAASO observatory have identified the binary system Cygnus X-3 as the most powerful cosmic particle accelerator discovered to date. The system accelerates particles to energies of at least 30 PeV.
Scientists using China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) recently found that a remarkable binary system in the constellation Cygnus, Cygnus X-3, is the most powerful particle accelerator discovered to date, according to the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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