{"id":119859,"date":"2021-02-22T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/ghost-particle-from-star-shredded"},"modified":"2021-02-28T19:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:38:57","slug":"ghost-particle-from-star-shredded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/ghost-particle-from-star-shredded","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Particle From Star Shredded by Black Hole Reveals Cosmic Particle Accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ghost-particle-from-star-shredded.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino \u2014 a particularly elusive particle \u2014 in the wake of a star\u2019s destruction as it is consumed by a black hole. This discovery, reported in the journal <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i>, sheds new light on the origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays \u2014 the highest energy particles in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>The work, which included researchers from more than two dozen institutions, including New York University and Germany\u2019s DESY research center, focused on neutrinos \u2014 subatomic particles that are produced on Earth only in powerful accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Neutrinos \u2014 as well as the process of their creation \u2014 are hard to detect, making their discovery, along with that of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), noteworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino \u2014 a particularly elusive particle \u2014 in the wake of a star\u2019s destruction as it is consumed by a black hole. This discovery, reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, sheds new light on the origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays \u2014 the highest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120047,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119859\/revisions\/120047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}