{"id":1205845,"date":"2023-11-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205845"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:00:00","slug":"the-most-powerful-cosmic-ray-since-the-oh-my-god-particle-puzzles-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205845","title":{"rendered":"The Most Powerful Cosmic Ray Since the Oh-My-God Particle Puzzles Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have detected the most powerful cosmic ray seen in more than three decades. But the exact origin of this turbocharged particle from outer space remains a mystery, with some suggesting that it could have been generated by unknown physics. From a report: The puzzling cosmic ray had an estimated energy of 240 exa-electron volts (EeV; 10^18 volts), making it comparable to the most powerful cosmic ray ever detected, aptly named the Oh-My-God particle, which measured at around 320 EeV when it was discovered in 1991. The findings were published today in Science. <\/p>\n

“It’s amazing because you have to think of what could produce such high energy,” says Clancy James, an astronomer at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. A cosmic ray, despite its name, is actually a high-energy subatomic particle — often a proton — that zips through space at close to the speed of light. In their ultra-high energy form, cosmic rays have energy levels that exceed one EeV, which is around one million times greater than those reached by the most powerful human-made particle accelerators. Cosmic rays with energies of more than 100 EeV are rarely spotted — fewer than one of these particles arrive on each square kilometre of Earth each century.<\/p>\n

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