Astronomers Detect The Highest Energy Light Ever That Could Change Laws Of Physics! – Mashable India

It has recently come to light that astronomers at an observatory in the Tibetan Pleatue have spotted the brightest light particle, gamma-ray photons up to 1.4 peta-electron volts (PeV) being emitted from the Milky Way galaxy.

Moreover, China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), key national science and technology infrastructure facilities, has also discovered a dozen of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic accelerators within the Milky Way, reports Eureka Alert.

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The details of the study titled Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 -ray Galactic sources has been published in the Journal Nature. The LHAASO International Collaboration led by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed the study.

For the purpose of the study, astronomers made use of data from LHAASOs first year of operation through which they detected over 530 photons with energies above 100 teraelectronvolts and up to 1.4 PeV from 12 ultrahigh-energy -ray sources with a statistical significance greater than seven standard deviations.

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For the uninitiated, LHAASO is a national scientific and technological infrastructure facility that focuses on cosmic ray observation and research. It is located 4,410 meters above sea level on Mt. Haizi in Daocheng County, Sichuan Province. LHAASO's major scientific goal is to explore the origin of high-energy cosmic rays, the evolution of the universe, the motion and interaction of high-energy astronomical celestials, and the nature of dark matter. LHAASO aims to extensively survey the universe (especially the Milky Way) for gamma-ray sources.

The findings of this study are different from the traditional understanding of the Milky Way, thereby, shedding light on a whole new world of UHE gamma astronomy. The report states that these new observations will push people to reanalyze the mechanism around how high-energy particles are generated in the Milky Way.

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