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High-energy superparticles hit the Earth. Their origin is a mystery to scientists.

Scientists have detected extremely high-energy superparticles that hit Earth. The problem is that we don't know where they come from. This is an issue that still remains a mystery.

Superparticles hit Earth

The particles were detected in May 2021 by the Telescope Array Project, a special facility located in Salt Lake City, Utah. There are 500 particle detectors spread over an area of ​​300 square miles. Since 2007, they have detected 30 extremely high-energy particles, but never this high.

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The particle detected in May 2021 had a power of 2.4 x 1020 eV. This is millions of times more than those produced in the hadron collider. At the same time, it is the second strongest ray we have managed to detect. Only the one from 1991 was stronger, which was called the "Oh-My-God particle".

These particles have such high energy that galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields should not affect them. You should be able to pinpoint where they are coming from in the sky. But in the case of the Oh My God particle and this new particle, you follow the trajectory to the source and there is nothing there that is high enough in energy to produce it. That's the mystery - what the hell is going on?

- said John Matthews from the University of Utah.

Scientists argue that even a supernova explosion is not strong enough to produce particles with such power. In addition, they come from an empty space in space at the edge of the Milky Way, which we call the Local Void.