What powers cosmic accelerators?

Researchers from the High Energy Density Science division at SLAC have unveiled a new mechanism that could power the acceleration of the most energetic particles in the universe in the jets of supermassive black holes.

Read more about this research here Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators and in the links below.

Article published in Physical Review Letters

Efficient Nonthermal Particle Acceleration by the Kink Instability in Relativistic Jets

APS Physics Focus

Black Hole as Extreme Particle Accelerator

Forbes

'Spaghetti' Magnetic Fields Might Be Powering Cosmic Particle Accelerators