{"id":3927180,"date":"2026-07-27T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/extragalactic-positron-annihilation-hotspots-might-mean-milky-way-produces-far-more-positrons-than-thought\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:03:11","slug":"extragalactic-positron-annihilation-hotspots-might-mean-milky-way-produces-far-more-positrons-than-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/extragalactic-positron-annihilation-hotspots-might-mean-milky-way-produces-far-more-positrons-than-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Extragalactic positron-annihilation hotspots might mean Milky Way produces far more positrons than thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Positrons\u2014the antimatter counterpart of electrons\u2014are created in high-energy cosmic processes. When normal matter meets its antimatter counterpart, they annihilate, or vanish, and produce a distinctive 511 keV gamma-ray signal. Scientists use this signal to detect where these annihilations occur.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-extragalactic-positron-annihilation-hotspots-milky.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positrons\u2014the antimatter counterpart of electrons\u2014are created in high-energy cosmic processes. When normal matter meets its antimatter counterpart, they annihilate, or vanish, and produce a distinctive 511 keV gamma-ray signal. Scientists use this signal to detect where these annihilations occur. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3927180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927180","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=3927180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}