Quasars are the Biggest Particle Accelerators in the Universe
We puny humans think we can accelerate particles? Look how proud we are of the Large Hadron Collider. But any particle accelerator we build will pale in comparison to Quasars, nature’s champion accelerators. Those things are beasts. The term quasar is a contraction—albeit a clumsy one—of “quasi-stellar radio source.” When they were first discovered in …
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