LHAASO Discovers the True Origin of the Cosmic Ray "Knee" in the Milky Way Introduction — A 70-Year Astrophysics Mystery Solved On 16 November, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) announced landmark results that resolve a long-standing enigma in astrophysics: the mysterious knee-like dip in the cosmic ray energy spectrum occurring beyond 3 PeV. The origin of the "knee" has puzzled scientists for almost 70 years. It was long thought to mark the acceleration limit of cosmic-ray sources and signal a shift between two power-law energy distributions. Now, two new papers — appearing in National Science Review and Science Bulletin — show that micro-quasars powered by black hole accretion are potent particle accelerators within the Milky Way and likely creators of the "knee." The work was carried out by teams from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing University, the University of Science and Techn...
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