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Physicists Detect a 300 TeV Photon That Should Never Have Reached Earth


The agreed laws of physics put limits on how far photons can travel in space – but researchers just identified a photon that's broken those fundamental rules and achieved the impossible, traveling 2 billion light-years to Earth.

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