{"id":220162,"date":"2025-08-15T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/its-official-ghost-particle-that-smashed-into-earth-breaks-records"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:19:00","slug":"its-official-ghost-particle-that-smashed-into-earth-breaks-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/its-official-ghost-particle-that-smashed-into-earth-breaks-records","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: \u2018Ghost Particle\u2019 That Smashed Into Earth Breaks Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-ghost-particle-that-smashed-into-earth-breaks-records.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The verdict is in. The detection of a cosmic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutrinos\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">neutrino<\/a> that smashed into Earth with an unprecedented energy level is not a glitch or an error, but a real detection of a real particle.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, a detector called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KM3NeT\">KM3NeT<\/a>, located deep under the Mediterranean Sea, picked up a signal that seemed to indicate a neutrino with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts (PeV). For reference, the previous record was a mere <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ac4d29\">10 PeV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an exhaustive analysis of all the data on and around the event, designated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/record-breaking-neutrino-from-deep-space-spotted-by-undersea-telescope\">KM3-230213A<\/a>, not only supports the conclusions that the signal was caused by a 220-PeV neutrino, but adds to the mystery about where the heck in the Universe it came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verdict is in. The detection of a cosmic neutrino that smashed into Earth with an unprecedented energy level is not a glitch or an error, but a real detection of a real particle. In February 2023, a detector called KM3NeT, located deep under the Mediterranean Sea, picked up a signal that seemed to indicate [\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-220162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220162","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=220162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}