Aquila Booster: a modest pulsar that out-accelerates the Crab and breaks the textbook

⚡🌌 A pulsar fifty times less powerful than the Crab is somehow accelerating particles more efficiently than the textbook allows. 🔭 LHAASO's detection of PeV gamma rays from PSR J1849-0001's nebula — now called the Aquila Booster — exceeds 27% of the theoretical acceleration efficiency limit, breaking the standard termination-shock model and rewriting what we thought we knew about cosmic accelerators. ✨ The Crab is no longer the benchmark. Read the full article on SKYCR. 👇