Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Ray - Other Possible Sources of The Particles

Other Possible Sources of The Particles

Other possible sources of the UHECR are:

  • radio lobes of powerful radio galaxies
  • intergalactic shocks created during the epoch of galaxy formation
  • hypernovae
  • gamma-ray bursts
  • decay products of supermassive particles from topological defects, left over from phase transitions in the early universe
  • Particles undergoing the Penrose effect.

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