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Blazars are massive black holes sending out particle jets at close to the speed of light. Stupendously fast, intense bursts of highly energetic γ-rays indicate that the blazar environment is even more extreme than was thought.

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Figure 1: Cosmic rollercoaster.
Figure 2: Eye on the sky.

R. WAGNER/ MPI PHYSIK

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  1. Trevor Weekes is at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA, and a visiting fellow at the School of Physics, University College Dublin, Ireland. tweekes@cfa.harvard.edu,

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Weekes, T. Photons from a hotter hell. Nature 448, 760–761 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448760a

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