It has recently come to light that astronomers at an observatory in the Tibetan Pleatue have spotted the brightest light particle, gamma-ray photons u

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

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2021-05-23 19:00:01

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.

The details of the study titled ‘Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 γ-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 LHAASO’s 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 γ-ray sources with a statistical significance greater than seven standard deviations.