Breakthrough on Extragalactic Jets
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I have led the interpretation and modelling in a recent Nature paper on the large-scale jet in Centaurus A, demonstrating that extragalactic jets are extreme particle accelerators.
See here for an official press release: https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/mpi/en/public-relations/news/news-item/particle-acceleration-in-extragalactic-jets-extends-over-thousands-of-light-years