{"id":231418,"date":"2026-02-15T21:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/amaterasu-particle-that-broke-physics-has-finally-been-explained"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:11:14","slug":"amaterasu-particle-that-broke-physics-has-finally-been-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/amaterasu-particle-that-broke-physics-has-finally-been-explained","title":{"rendered":"Amaterasu Particle That Broke Physics Has Finally Been Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RxP6if7G7AM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious, extremely energetic particle, known as the Amaterasu particle, was detected coming from a distant region of space, and scientists have proposed explanations for its origin, potentially tracing it back to a starburst galaxy like Messier 82 ##<\/p>\n<p>## Questions to inspire discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd2c Q: What makes the Amaterasu particle exceptionally powerful? A: The Amaterasu particle detected in Utah in 2021 carries energy 40 million times higher than anything produced on Earth, equivalent to a baseball traveling at 100 km\/h compressed into a single subatomic particle, making it one of the most energetic particles ever detected.<\/p>\n<p>Solving the Origin Mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfaf Q: Where did scientists determine the Amaterasu particle actually originated? A: A 2026 study by Max Planck Institute scientists using approximate Bayesian computation and 3D magnetic field simulations traced the particle\u2019s origin to a starburst galaxy like Messier 82, located 12 million light-years away, rather than the initially suspected local void with only six known galaxies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/amaterasu-particle-that-broke-physics-has-finally-been-explained\">Continue reading \u201cAmaterasu Particle That Broke Physics Has Finally Been Explained\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious, extremely energetic particle, known as the Amaterasu particle, was detected coming from a distant region of space, and scientists have proposed explanations for its origin, potentially tracing it back to a starburst galaxy like Messier 82 ## ## Questions to inspire discussion. Understanding Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays. \ud83d\udd2c Q: What makes the Amaterasu [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1523,33,1761,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-cryptocurrencies","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231418","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\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}