Monday, October 5, 2026

Neutrons, Rotating Black Holes, and a Galactic PeVatron at the Center of the Milky Way

In this artist's conception, the black hole at the center of our galaxy is surrounded by a hot disk of accreting material. Blue lines trace magnetic fields. Credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Supermassive black holes generate tremendous amounts of energy through their accretion disks and jets. But they can also generate energy through the magnetic Penrose process. A new study looks at how we might observe this process through multimessenger astronomy.



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