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Physics

Pair Annihilation

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In electron-positron annihilation, the resulting photons each carry about 511 keV of energy — exactly the energy equivalent of an electron's mass.

Why this is interesting

You know that ordinary matter and antimatter cannot coexist — but what actually happens when they meet? The answer is a spectacular burst of pure energy.