High-energy cosmic ray sources are being mapped for the first time
Ikaro Stars
In 2008, Farrar and an author proposed that cataclysms called tidal events (TDEs) can be a source of very high-energy cosmic rays.
A TDE occurs when a star pulls a Fear and gets too close to a supermassive black hole. The star’s front feels much more severe than its back, as the star shrinks and turns into an abyss. The vortex lasts about a year. As it lasts, two jets of material subatomic fragments of a broken star are thrown in opposite directions through a black hole. Shock waves and magnetic fields from these rays could be conspired before the nuclei could be accelerated to space at very high energies.