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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

For the simple case of electron-positron annihilation, they transform into high-energy photons, whose total energy is equal to the total mass-energy of the electron and positron. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%E2%80%93positron_annihilation