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Comment by maxnoe

Particle physics processes in the sources we suspect accelerate particles in a way that results in a power law distribution of energies. So you can get extremely high energy particles, but the higher the energy the rarer.

And sources have a maximum energy they can accelerate particles to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_acceleration

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