{"id":3925839,"date":"2026-05-07T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultrahigh-energy-cosmic-messengers-may-carry-ultraheavy-secrets\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:06:22","slug":"ultrahigh-energy-cosmic-messengers-may-carry-ultraheavy-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultrahigh-energy-cosmic-messengers-may-carry-ultraheavy-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrahigh-energy cosmic messengers may carry ultraheavy secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There may be an ultraheavy explanation for the mystery surrounding the origins of the highest-energy particles ever observed. Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are particles from space that strike Earth with energies far beyond those reachable by human-made particle accelerators. One of the most extreme events ever recorded is the &#8220;Amaterasu particle,&#8221; detected by the Telescope Array in Utah in 2021 and named after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology. Its reported energy places it among the highest-energy cosmic-ray events ever observed, comparable to the &#8220;Oh-My-God particle&#8221; detected in 1991, yet its origin\u2014and even its identity\u2014remain uncertain.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-ultrahigh-energy-cosmic-messengers-ultraheavy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be an ultraheavy explanation for the mystery surrounding the origins of the highest-energy particles ever observed. Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are particles from space that strike Earth with energies far beyond those reachable by human-made particle accelerators. One of the most extreme events ever recorded is the &#8220;Amaterasu particle,&#8221; detected by the Telescope Array [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}