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Imagine a tiny subatomic particle hurtling through space at a mind-boggling speed—so fast that it makes Usain Bolt look like a slowpoke. That's the Oh-My-God particle for you, discovered by scientists probing the depths of the cosmos for cosmic rays. It's not your average particle; it packs the energy of a baseball hurled at 60 miles per hour, yet it's smaller than a proton. Scientists scratch their heads trying to figure out where these supercharged particles come from and what accelerates them to such incredible speeds. Some speculate they originate from distant galaxies or cataclysmic cosmic events, while others ponder if they're remnants of the Big Bang itself.
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Black Hole: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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Imagine a tiny subatomic particle hurtling through space at a mind-boggling speed—so fast that it makes Usain Bolt look like a slowpoke. That's the Oh-My-God particle for you, discovered by scientists probing the depths of the cosmos for cosmic rays. It's not your average particle; it packs the energy of a baseball hurled at 60 miles per hour, yet it's smaller than a proton. Scientists scratch their heads trying to figure out where these supercharged particles come from and what accelerates them to such incredible speeds. Some speculate they originate from distant galaxies or cataclysmic cosmic events, while others ponder if they're remnants of the Big Bang itself.
Credit:
NEOSTEL: ESA/A. Baker, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Black Hole: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Great Pyramid: Sébastien Procureur, Kunihiro Morishima, Mitsuaki Kuno, Yuta Manabe, Nobuko Kitagawa, Akira Nishio, Hector Gomez, David Attié, Ami Sakakibara, Kotaro Hikata, Masaki Moto, Irakli Mandjavidze, Patrick Magnier, Marion Lehuraux, Théophile Benoit, Denis Calvet, Xavier Coppolani, Mariam Kebbiri, Philippe Mas, Hany Helal, Mehdi Tayoubi, Benoit Marini, Nicolas Serikoff, Hamada Anwar, Vincent Steiger, Fumihiko Takasaki, Hirofumi Fujii, Kotaro Satoh, Hideyo Kodama, Kohei Hayashi, Pierre Gable, Emmanuel Guerriero, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Tamer Elnady, Yasser Elshayeb & Mohamed Elkarmoty, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CERN: Chris Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Animation is created by Bright Side.
#brightside
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Listen to Bright Side on:
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Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id...
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https://www.eastnews.ru
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