Supermassive black hole winds may solve mystery of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

“NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics” – do we really need to have this kind of forced sensationalism even in physics journalism?

The reality here is that this is just one of hundreds upon hundreds of papers studying yet another acceleration mechanism. There is not enough data to say anything specific, so there is endless room for models, but this doesn’t even stand out among the many others. Which, interestingly, the last part of the article basically admits.