Scientists have discovered a powerful cosmic ray that hit Earth. The privacy is that they don’t know “where it came from or what exactly it is”As explained by experts led by Toshihiro Fujii, a professor at the Graduate School of Science and the Nambu Yuichiro Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics at Osaka Metropolitan University.
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This is how they discovered super-strong cosmic rays
Cosmic rays contain a large amount of energy that comes from galactic and extraterrestrial sources.
To give you an idea: it reaches exaelectronvolts of energy, “which is about a million times greater than that achieved by the most powerful accelerators ever created by man,” as scientists described it in a publication of the specialized portal. Yorick alert!.
Fujii has been studying these phenomena since 2008 using the telescope array, an important infrastructure in the state of Utah in the United States, equipped with hundreds of stations to detect them.
After years of experiments On May 27, 2021, their instruments indicated that a lightning bolt with a magnitude of 244 electron volts (EeV) had struck.
The only record of something similar dates back to 1991, when other scientists discovered the most powerful cosmic ray in history, an energy of 320 eV which they called “Oh my God” (Oh my God, in Spanish).
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After verifications, Fujii concluded that his team had detected the second most powerful cosmic ray. Details of the discovery are part of a magazine article Sciences Which was revealed on November 24, 2023.
Why don’t they know where super-powerful cosmic rays come from?
Unlike “Oh my God” This second ray was christened Amaterasu, the name of the Japanese sun goddess.
According to Fujii, the lightning is as “mysterious” as the goddess herself, as they have been unable to pinpoint its origin.
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He pointed out that “no promising astronomical object has been identified that matches the direction from which the cosmic ray arrived, indicating the possibilities of unknown astronomical phenomena and new physical origins beyond the Standard Model.”
To know exactly where it comes from, They need to collect more data, and even hope to test next-generation observatories.
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