Cosmic Rays from Old Quasars?

frankske writes "The mystery of the galactic cosmic rays has been solved, according to NASA... From the article: "The American space agency (Nasa) scientists think these fragments of matter come from "retired" quasars, galaxies containing supermassive black holes that once shone with astonishing brilliance. ""

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Re:And this is important, why?

[Paul Neubauer]

However, how does this help us except that we know a little bit more? How can we use this to our advantage to improve our lives, etc?

Right now, it doesn't help except we hopefully know a bit more. That's the thing with basic science, generally any one discovery doesn't in itself help anything or anyone. But such things come together with other basic and 'useless' things and produce something useful. And until then, nobody knows which bits are the important ones.