{"id":206414,"date":"2025-02-14T04:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/3-5-kilometers-underwater-scientists-found-a-staggeringly-energetic-particle-from-outer-space"},"modified":"2025-02-14T04:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:14:53","slug":"3-5-kilometers-underwater-scientists-found-a-staggeringly-energetic-particle-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/3-5-kilometers-underwater-scientists-found-a-staggeringly-energetic-particle-from-outer-space","title":{"rendered":"3.5 Kilometers Underwater, Scientists Found a Staggeringly Energetic Particle From Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3-5-kilometers-underwater-scientists-found-a-staggeringly-energetic-particle-from-outer-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three and a half kilometers beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual telescope called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.km3net.org\" target=\"_blank\">KM3NeT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The enormous device is still under construction, but today the telescope\u2019s scientific team announced they have already detected a particle from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/outer+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">outer space<\/a> with a staggering amount of energy.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as the team <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-024-08543-1\" target=\"_blank\">report in <i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, they found the most energetic neutrino anyone has ever seen\u2014and it represents a tremendous leap forward in exploring the uncharted waters of the extreme universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three and a half kilometers beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual telescope called KM3NeT. The enormous device is still under construction, but today the telescope\u2019s scientific team announced they have already detected a particle from outer space with a staggering amount of energy. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206414","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}