The particle jets streaming from the neighborhood of a supermassive black hole punch their way out of their home galaxies and extend hundreds of thousands of light-years beyond. Astronomers this week reported that they have finally identified the particles in the jets as electrons and protons and have found that those streams of particles carry much more energy than some astronomers had theorized.
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