China's LHAASO has confirmed Cygnus X-3 as the most powerful particle accelerator ever found, capable of reaching 30 PeV.

Cygnus X-3 provides opportunity to test how black holes and other objects launch particles to highest energies in the Milky Way, team says A China-led team has detected the highest-energy light ...

Cygnus X-3 particle accelerator now confirmed: China's LHAASO observatory recorded gamma rays at 30 PeV from a binary star ...

Scientists using China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) recently found that a remarkable binary system ...

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a new understanding of how cosmic rays behave, a new study reveals. More than ...

When atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, they create the hottest fluid in the universe, but scientists may have overlooked one of its most important forces. New simulations ...

After more than two decades of searching, scientists have finally observed a phenomenon in a hot and dense particle 'soup' similar to that which filled the cosmos moments after the Big Bang.

Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research ...

If one particle accelerator alone is not enough to achieve the desired result, why not combine two accelerators? An international team led by physicists at the Center for Advanced Laser Applications ...