{"id":215149,"date":"2025-05-31T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-universes-most-powerful-cosmic-rays-may-finally-be-explained"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:03:31","slug":"the-universes-most-powerful-cosmic-rays-may-finally-be-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-universes-most-powerful-cosmic-rays-may-finally-be-explained","title":{"rendered":"The Universe\u2019s Most Powerful Cosmic Rays May Finally Be Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universes-most-powerful-cosmic-rays-may-finally-be-explained.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in our galaxy are engines capable of driving atomic fragments to velocities that come within a whisker of lightspeed.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive deaths of stars seems like a natural place to search for sources of these highly energetic cosmic bullets, yet when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-highest-energy-photons-ever-have-been-detected-coming-from-the-crab-nebula\">the most powerful particles<\/a>, researchers have had their doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Numerical simulations by a small international team of physicists may yet save the supernova theory of cosmic ray emissions at the highest of energies, suggesting there is a brief period where a collapsing star could still become the Universe\u2019s most extreme accelerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in our galaxy are engines capable of driving atomic fragments to velocities that come within a whisker of lightspeed. The explosive deaths of stars seems like a natural place to search for sources of these highly energetic cosmic bullets, yet when it comes to the most powerful particles, researchers have had their doubts. Numerical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215149","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\/215149","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}