Quarks to Quasars

We officially have no idea what causes ultra-powerful cosmic rays

Cosmic rays generate the most energetic particles in the universe, utterly dwarfing anything we can generate in particle accelerators. Astrophysicists thought these cosmic rays were created in powerful gamma-ray bursts. Turns out they were completely, utterly wrong. So now what?

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    Maybe God’s wrath??…. No, it’s prolly black holes. But as an aside, I really like the name of the telescope, the IceCube...

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