{"id":176697,"date":"2023-11-25T02:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T08:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-mysterious-cosmic-ray-from-beyond-the-galaxy-hit-earth-and-scientists-are-stunned"},"modified":"2023-11-25T02:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T08:23:22","slug":"a-mysterious-cosmic-ray-from-beyond-the-galaxy-hit-earth-and-scientists-are-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-mysterious-cosmic-ray-from-beyond-the-galaxy-hit-earth-and-scientists-are-stunned","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Cosmic Ray From Beyond The Galaxy Hit Earth And Scientists Are Stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mysterious-cosmic-ray-from-beyond-the-galaxy-hit-earth-and-scientists-are-stunned2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using the Telescope Array in Utah detected the second highest-energy cosmic ray ever. The singular subatomic particle was equivalent to dropping a brick on someone\u2019s toe from waist height.<\/p>\n<p>The Telescope Array comprises 507 surface detector stations arranged in a square grid located outside of Delta, Utah. It has been utilized to observe over 30 ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. These extreme cosmic rays have left scientists baffled about what produces them. The latest observation, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/astronomers-detect-8-billion-year-old-frb\">highest-ever recorded<\/a> event known as the Oh-My-God particle, appears to have originated from the Local Void, an empty area of space bordering the <a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/jwst-captures-milky-ways-heart-in-unprecedented-detail\">Milky Way galaxy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe particles are so high energy, they shouldn\u2019t be affected by galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields,\u201d remarked John Matthews, Telescope Array co-spokesperson and co-author of the study. \u201cYou should be able to point to where they come from in the sky. But in the case of the Oh-My-God particle and this new particle, you trace its trajectory and there\u2019s nothing high energy enough to have produced it. That\u2019s the mystery \u2014 what the heck is going on?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using the Telescope Array in Utah detected the second highest-energy cosmic ray ever. The singular subatomic particle was equivalent to dropping a brick on someone\u2019s toe from waist height. The Telescope Array comprises 507 surface detector stations arranged in a square grid located outside of Delta, Utah. It has been utilized to observe over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176697","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}