Scientists Baffled by Origins of Powerful ‘Cosmic Ray’ Discovered in Distant Space

Scientists Baffled by Origins of Powerful ‘Cosmic Ray’ Discovered in Distant Space
A screengrab from a video shows an artist's illustration of the extremely energetic cosmic ray observed by the Telescope Array Collaboration led by the University of Utah and the University of Tokyo. It's been named the "Amaterasu particle." Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige
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Scientists have detected something extremely rare—the second most powerful cosmic ray ever recorded—but the discovery has left them baffled as to where exactly it came from.

A team of researchers, led by Associate Professor Toshihiro Fujii from the Graduate School of Science, along with researchers from the Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics at Osaka Metropolitan University, and the University of Utah, documented their findings, which are set to be published in Science on Nov. 24.

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