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Did The Local Void Shoot a Monster Extreme Energy Cosmic Ray Our Way?
Osaka Metropolitan Univeristy/L-Insight, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige The Earth’s atmosphere has been blasted by the second strongest ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) to ever be observed. While its exact origins remain unknown, astrophysicists are pointing the finger at the Local Void, a fundamentally empty area of the cosmos next to the Milky Way. The subatomic particle that…