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The Second Most Energetic Cosmic Ray Ever Found


"Oh My God," someone must have said in 1991 when researchers detected the most energetic cosmic ray ever to strike Earth. Those three words were adopted as the name for the phenomenon: the Oh-My-God particle.

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