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Researchers long suspected that the feature reflects the highest energies that cosmic ray sources can reach, marking a shift in the spectrum from one power-law behavior to another.

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In space, the sun’s rays can be direct and constant for solar panels to collect—no clouds, no rainstorms, no nighttime.

The simulations also predict that these magnetic processes produce bursts of gamma rays during black hole formation.

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The team's results, published on November 3 in PNAS, could help solve a major mystery about the Universe's missing gamma rays and its vast, invisible magnetic fields.

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The blast also created radioactive atoms—atoms with unstable nuclei that break apart, ejecting particles and rays as they decay.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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