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All of these events could act as particle accelerators, but the prime suspects in this case are supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun.—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025 For context, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, accelerates protons to an energy of 7 Tera-electronVolts (TeV).—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025 The answer, some say, is a gigantic particle accelerator that saves energy by using the high-energy physics version of regenerative braking.
10.—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2024 The $111 million building, designed by star architect Renzo Piano, mimics the look of particle accelerators.—Michelle Tchea, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for particle accelerator
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